...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...pedantically. When she came out with her bag of goods she faced a gigantic television screen of video animated advertisements on the wall of a buildin... ...inating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brou... ...ted to some, as life's gluttons watched it as entertaining news from their television sets, and where under the wrong circumstances a good man might b... ...rich speculating on how to invest and have more, seeking large flat screen televisions and the fastest computers at Panthip Plaza, the most fashionabl... ...spite a few strange caprices that blew in here and there. "Supermodels and actresses are considered universally beautiful but I don't think it has muc... ...nd the normal range for most men to find in a partner that supermodels and actresses are depicted and believed as some type of a universal beauty. The...