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On being nobody

Groovin' in the Gaijin Gulag
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On being nobody

Postby Mulboyne » Fri May 16, 2008 12:25 am

John Burdett, author of detective stories set in Thailand, writes this in "Bangkok Haunts" about foreign men living in the city:

They have long been a curiosity with me, these farang men who come here to be nobody, as if even that role is too stressful in the utopia of origin.


Substitute gaijin for farang and it's perhaps not a bad observation for some foreigners in Japan. Of course, I'm perfectly well-balanced.
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Postby Takechanpoo » Fri May 16, 2008 12:38 am

Mulboyne wrote:Substitute gaijin for farang and it's perhaps not a bad observation for some foreigners in Japan. Of course, I'm perfectly well-balanced.

Yeah, you continue to escape from real yourself until die.
And it is your life itself.
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Postby Mulboyne » Fri May 16, 2008 12:47 am

Takechanpoo wrote:..You continue to escape from real yourself until die.
And it is your life itself.

You sound like Daisaku Ikeda.
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Postby Midwinter » Fri May 16, 2008 12:49 am

Mulboyne wrote:You sound like Daisaku Ikeda.


Burn :D :D :D
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