Should we start with a little Hemingway?
"You know what's the trouble with you? You're an expatriate. One of the worst type. Haven't you heard that? Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers."
He drank the coffee.
"You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes."
"Sounds like a swell life," I said.
(The Sun Also Rises, you know, the one where it's been shot off in the war to the horror of the woman who could have loved him... that bit has no correlation to my life by the way, just concentrate on the reading above.)
1 comment:
dearest kt.
you are clearly a genius.
Not only Hemingway, but also Germaine, Clive, Rolf, and Kylie ..
Such amazing company you're keeping!
Then there's Olivia Neutron Bomb, The Shark, and the Veronicas.
Of course that Hemingway passage has no correlation to your life in PP. i woudn't believe that for a second.
.. and what about Andrew Biggs, the most famous falang in Thailand?
best wishes for your bloog.
much love, michael
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