Off the rails in Phnom Penh
The amazing thing is all these years later, the book has still got us talking.
True and with rosy retrospection but in this case it really was better than the insipid version of today.
When I was a child.....shut it grandpa, your grandpa said the same thing about you.
Better for who though?Gazzy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 6:42 amTrue and with rosy retrospection but in this case it really was better than the insipid version of today.
For Cambodians have things improved?
There's another way of looking at that. The Victorians made great leaps forward, but I'd rather have lived in the Georgian period.bargain basement wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 12:22 pmWhen I was a child.....shut it grandpa, your grandpa said the same thing about you.
Had you done so, you would have died of the dozens of venereal diseases you have had by the age of 20.RobW wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 1:50 pmThere's another way of looking at that. The Victorians made great leaps forward, but I'd rather have lived in the Georgian period.bargain basement wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 12:22 pmWhen I was a child.....shut it grandpa, your grandpa said the same thing about you.
Not only do we the old(ish) get nostalgic for the earlier times we lived through, often enough remembering them as somehow better, or more real, than the present, we also frequently romanticize the period just before we arrived on the scene, as likely even better. But, as one Woody Allen film (who can remember so many titles?) pointed out, the people who actually lived in that earlier time, romanticized a yet earlier time. And so on. ... ... The very best was the non-time just before the Big Bang.
Death would be more depressing if we were nostalgic for the future, but I'd probably hop out of bed in the morning with twice the enthusiasm. Then go promptly off the rails of course!
Death would be more depressing if we were nostalgic for the future, but I'd probably hop out of bed in the morning with twice the enthusiasm. Then go promptly off the rails of course!
How true.Guest9999 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:03 pm... we also frequently romanticize the period just before we arrived on the scene, as likely even better. But ... the people who actually lived in that earlier time, romanticized a yet earlier time. And so on.
I wandered Indo-China on the mid-1970s, fantasizing about how fantastic the place must have been in the mid-1950s.
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It's a controversial book about a place that we are all interested in that was written by someone with rather limited literary talent and questionable moral judgment.Gazzy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 1:04 amThe amazing thing is all these years later, the book has still got us talking.
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Yeah, I'm sure you were wandering around "Indochina" in the mid 1970s when Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia all had wars going on or were closed off. BS artist.convoluted wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:04 pmHow true.Guest9999 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:03 pm... we also frequently romanticize the period just before we arrived on the scene, as likely even better. But ... the people who actually lived in that earlier time, romanticized a yet earlier time. And so on.
I wandered Indo-China on the mid-1970s, fantasizing about how fantastic the place must have been in the mid-1950s.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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mid-late 70's was doing europe- kathmandu trips.
Early 80's was cycling around se asia
great times, great memories
Early 80's was cycling around se asia
great times, great memories
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Strangely we all know this as you tell us often.Phuket2006 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:10 ammid-late 70's was doing europe- kathmandu trips.
Early 80's was cycling around se asia
great times, great memories
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I doubt you were cycling around "Indochina".Phuket2006 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:10 ammid-late 70's was doing europe- kathmandu trips.
Early 80's was cycling around se asia
great times, great memories
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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