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Mongolia, land of the clear blue sky, transforms at night; her blue skies fade to reveal the blackness of empty space, punctuated by the glow of distant stars .
I stood outside the doorway to our ger, toothbrush hanging from my mouth…. Mongolia, land of the clear blue sky, transforms at night; her blue skies fade to reveal the blackness of empty space, punctuated by the glow of distant stars.
5 minute short, “Boxes” Constraints Navy block letters, lined in white a la found object (a scarf for FC Bayern München) From found writing: Reading the great works, Knows someone from Boston Something related to the game MASH et al…. Closer narrative distance I once read that, “Marco [Polo] devoted his prison time to composing his book.”
The motorcycle’s lone headlight danced its way across the steppe; I leaned back, resting my hands on my knees, and gazed up at the endless starry dark. My stomach full of боодог (boodog, Mongolian roasted goat), сүүтэй цай (suutei tsai, milky tea), айраг (airag, fermented mare’s milk) and архи (arhi, vodka), I smiled at the uniqueness and beauty of this experience, and drank in the Mongolian night.
At home, people talk about work lives, sex lives; but in Mongolia, we had whole soap-operas worth of material and drama pertaining to nothing more than diarrhea and its many relatives…. This extreme take on a traditionally sensitive subject (flexibility borne of necessity and increasing familiarity with said subject’s less desirable territories) exposes the opposite extreme in which we are perpetually trapped back in the 1st world.
from a piece begun on 10/9/07, 9:24 pm: UB is a different city now — the cold has arrived; there is snow by the sides of the street and blanketing the flanking mountains…. My breath grows thicker by the day, and I begin to see and feel the first signs of smog, clouds hovering outside our front door, waiting to be drawn in. After a few weeks I have a smoker’s cough, nothing too violent; just a persistent aggravation.
P.s. I really do not like Voicethread.
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So, for all the stuff I wrote while blogging from Mongolia visit: Chinggis Khaan Moves to the City
Reflections on Mongolia
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