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- Path: sparky!uunet!canetoad!annie
- From: annie@canetoad.UUCP (Picasso-puss)
- Newsgroups: alt.prose
- Subject: The Architect in Bangkok
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <annie.0540@canetoad.UUCP>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 21:17:56 EDT
- Organization: The Satellite of Love
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- Beware, he said. Bangkok has needs. It will come to you,
- desperate and hot and hungry, or cold and proud and regal.
- Or in any of a thousand disguises. Once it has fed, take fear.
- He curled his hands lightly around my neck. Fear it as I fear
- women. I would not want to find you, throat slit, in the
- morning. He let his hands fall and stared past me, remembering.
-
- He walked down the strip and collected the calling cards.
- The hawkers spoke a river of English and Thai, urgently pressing
- the cards into his palm. Sometimes laminated, sometimes a simple
- printed sheet, the cards listed each bar's attractions.
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- nude dancers
- live sex
- free beer
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- The free beer seemed a good idea.
-
- Red shag carpeting grew on the walls. The fibers were heavy with
- all that they absorbed: the moist, dark thoughts of those who
- sit and watch.
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- He sat on the red, cushioned bench and stared up at the platform
- in the center of the room. A wooden-railed bar and tough-looking
- bartenders guarded the unreality being acted out on stage.
-
- A patron leaned against the bar to have a cigarette served directly
- to his mouth, on chopsticks which protruded from a pretty Thai
- pudendum: first she squatted and picked up the cigarette. Then,
- angling her hips, one foot lightly on the bar, she delivered the
- goods. She was all of 14 years old.
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- Another man ordered a bottle of beer. The amazing, the unstoppable,
- the precocious pudendums to the rescue again. The woman slid the
- bottle up between her legs, and *pop* handed the uncapped drink
- down to the bar. She was sweating a little, and she sat down
- quickly, pressing her vulva to the stage.
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