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 | | I walked onto Khaosan again in April 1999, at Songkran time, an experience covered elsewhere on this site, and it only vaguely conformed to memory, time might have a lot to do with that, but the dimly lit fossil in my mind was now alive with neon. |
 | | The fellow using it, over and over, was a Brit Id met in a pub off Sukhumvit Road, another kind of ghetto, and somehow the conversation over a ridiculously priced pint of Guinness turned toward Khaosan Road, and his eyes turned electric with hate as if I had slighted English football. |
 | | When I read or hear people talk about neo-colonialism in the same breath as Khaosan Road, I imagine they have a warped sense of their own cultural superiority, that what they bring is so potently virile it will certainly root and take hold. |
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