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"THAILAND A multi-layered world. Disabled beggars with plastic cups, a swimming pool filled with ice to celebrate New Year's Day; ghosts, Spirit Doctors, mediums, Buddhist monks...... Everywhere, temples thunder their disenchanting message that this teeming world, its glamour, excitement and misery, is impermanent, not-self and suffering. FLOWERS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT A woman looks up from her place among the dirt and pollution of Silom Road and joins her palms together in salutation. Someone has put two one-baht coins in her plastic cup (without looking at her face). One hundred yards away, The British Club is going to cool their swimming pool with ice for a Polar Swim at 11.00 a.m. on New Year's Day. ""Free of Charge. Free hot mulled wine."" (There is a double crash barrier with uniformed security guards to protect would-be polar swimmers.) At the Bangkok Motor Show, an as-white-as-snow Bugatti Veyron is A la carte, escorted by swirling girls in white satin evening gowns. 253 mph top speed, turbocharged, all souped-up. To squeeze out all its growling sounds, you will need to take 165 million baht out of your plastic cup."

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A poem-story magic carpet journey inside Thailand like no other! - Ariya Books, UK

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