...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ey, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their aloneness. It was ... ...e one of the myriad crazed but gently starving dogs (after all, in certain areas of the streets, pheromones and urinary molecules dominated over the o... ...t all of you in Ayutthaya, wouldn't I?" "You buy jeans and cut out the areas around the knees so that doesn't prove much. Just see to it that the... ...r while in the bathroom of Kumpee's friend. It was a well-known fact that metropolitan bus drivers in every city popped amphetamines; and so to him i... ...ought I could become a money collector in a city bus. I would be a Bangkok Metropolitan Transportation employee--BMT." "Well, being prime ministe... ...to buy him a white shirt and necktie so that he could apply at the Bangkok Metropolitan Transportation Department and thereby resurrect himself as an ... ...f Russell Stover chocolate candies with the parent company of Kansas City, Missouri, USA on the label. Inside, more than half of the chocolates still...

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...hts, when not able to do it in deeds, almost always ran to Seoul. The rural areas where he worked and at one time had lived gave him the solitude and... ...s like living in the Ozarks with high hills everywhere. He had lived in both Missouri and Texas depending on the needs of his father's work. They had... ...y falls in rural Ithaca, and on little rides in amusement parks in different areas of the state. Except for the local falls, which were free, she jus... ...r than me. How come it's my cat?" "My dear, when it goes to the bathroom in areas it shouldn't it becomes your cat." "How come?" "Because I'd--" She... ...I. From what state?" "The Midwest mostly but IﾁOve been all over ﾁN born in Missouri but my father had to travel a lot." "You look a bit agitated." "... ...ble to find. Maybe having lived in Umsong for half a year contributed to his metropolitan enthusiasm since there he was miserable with a malaise ameli...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...