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Never sleeps from out of me , but I'm tired : Due to the exhaustion fog appear two more nocturnal manifestations of professional gaiety , tending to a Vietnamese copy of Ernie and Bert : The grin of the two young men at the hotel reception is so wide that I'm afraid they could at any moment unfold their heads. I - know - I - know I should not joke about the English of Vietnamese do ( which is , on the other hand , the Vietnamese quite delicious - and quite rightly - have fun when I try to imitate a syllable of their unspeakable language) but one of the receptionists is blessed with such a charming lisp that I can not resist and listen to the BBC.
No, the quiet American, I have not read yet , but I had Saigon somehow imagined differently ( the name alone ! Sorry, but so full of promise and romantic words it is impossible to exchange it for a HCMC - shortcut , even if they still fits so well into the BMW and ferry from holyhead to dublin with car). But how actually , so presented ? On one hand, such as Shanghai and gleaming skyscrapers with expensive bars in the top floors. On the other hand, an enchanted accumulation of colonial French architecture splendor. Nope : the latter is already gone ( working on the demolition of the remaining radicals Vincom and consorts with lubricating joyful tenacity ) , the former are not there yet :
A city between the chairs , filled with cheerful zeal and ferry harwich to hook of holland car. ( And if you for once would be here ready to learn something from Hanoi , the old one would not razed to the ground. ) A leather jacket ( fish ) on the plate : in striped tights, cropped jeans panties, close-cropped hair, a cigarette between his fingers and a glass of beer : On table next to my first punk girl that I am looking in every city , for four weeks hand on a
In a Saigon bar are two girls who work for freedom , flashy as colorful dogs , in Berlin they would long ago a pathetic anachronism : this self- cutting the time axis shows vividly than any sociological analysis of how this country tradition and capitalist modernity to a strange symbiosis united : beyond the punk girl has the desire to use the ( west -defined ) that is simply skipped enlightened desire for freedom.
Despite billion trade deficit is imported hilarious i-phones worth a Milliare per year and ferry from dublin to liverpool with car, while the first-born sons for life remain in the parental home and see well-educated young women in the service of her husband and children their fulfillment. Modern companies can dictate the design of their business premises of soothsayers. Men and women in jeans and Nike T-shirts meet at night secretly on the field to dig up the bones of a dead three years ago, uncle to wash and beds in an urn as the (not directly legal) rite provides. I would characterize Vietnam with a set , I'd say : The land of mystifying resolution of contradictions.
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