Instant Journey - My Southeast Asia

Author: Tang Ying
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: The candlelight in the bar only lit a few, dim at the same time, while the lights of the Indonesian archipelago across were even brighter, always the distant lights that were more dazzling. Suddenly remembered that she had also been talking to Sem about another city, ever since going on vacation to New York, she had lost her soul in New York. This was how she had told Sem, he didn’t know, when she described to him a future elsewhere, a future that was also devoid of realism, the thoughts running through her mind were Eliot’s lines: We are hollow men, we are straw men, / Depending on each other / Straw in our heads, /, / / Paralyzed strength, / Motiveless attitudes.