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Looking forward to a beautiful winter’s day!
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Bangkok | The Great Metropolis
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Never in the eyes of gods did I feel so small – then again, the eyes are always watching.
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It’s not meant to be comforting; inflections of power rarely are.
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Where life itself is packaged and commodified, are we to find some sort of respite in the grotesque?
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Bangkok is something of an absurd character in that sense: it’s the demon fish that I choose to write about.
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"You like it?” I shrugged and smiled and shovelled another spoonful of critters down my gob.
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Routine has the nasty habit of making the most spectacular of things a few shades less vibrant.
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"If I drink this, I’m going to get belligerent." When I was living in Mumbai, in a world so far away from the middle of Silom Plaza’s food court, a friend of mine would proudly declare his intentions before getting completely, utterly and absolutely shitfaced.
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The weighted spiritualism pasteurised by a fake gem necklace, the roots of this organic system, were as salient as its blossoms.
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I believe that to be the beauty in natural systems: the aesthetic of a willing unknowingness and a recognition that understanding is inherently reductive. I neither know nor want to know.
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Like a bouquet of plastic flowers perfumed with synthetic oils, centuries-old belief systems are neutered behind the window of a London-based spiritual wellness store.
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An energy drawn from the unknown laws governing how many flowers are appropriate to give to your first sweetheart - or what counts as a reasonable amount of bruising before it can no longer be sold.
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Pak Khlong Talat: a street of marigolds and orchids and roses, of pollen and perfumed syrup hanging in the air with smoke and dim sum steam. I was immediately enraptured.
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He readjusts and sends a gentle pulse through the ink, and the light above his head moves with him.
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I’ve landed in the arms of a single eyeball with eight feathered wings jetting out in irregular directions, but the feathers are also made of eyeballs, and it drops me in front of three demons, at least they look like demons but I am not sure.
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I speed up my pace and am now aware that I'm not actually floating; there is gold on either side and I don't know when it will end.
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Bangkok: The Seat of the King and the City of Royal Palaces
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Statues can only aesthetically indicate that they do not wish to be photographed. In this sense, they often make excellent subjects.
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Amidst my hunger, I still spent the better part of a giddy hour trying to identify characters from the Ramakien on the palace's murals - I still winced when the sun reflected off its iridescent gems.
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The King's ghost is nowhere to be found; the palace is empty.
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The Grand Palace crawls with my Rakshasa kin, and there are neither divine weapons nor armies of tawny monkeys in sight. The Yakshas are immobilised by their golden cloaks. Despair, for the king’s head sits atop a profitable golden platter.
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