I used to be obsessed with reading people’s travel blogs, the more poorly conceived the better. My favourite piece from one of these was a self-important, exhaustive document of the author’s time in Thailand. Each paragraph was more riddled with casual racism and economic misunderstanding than the last. Their use of adjectives bordered on aggressive, their sentences were truncated in a manner that they had obviously admired elsewhere and thought was stylish writing, but instead read like they were being taught a new and unfamiliar dialect. They mused on their advanced emotional and spiritual growth like there was no such thing as death, and they finished up with an oily anecdote about a holiday romance with an Indian yoga instructor. They didn’t use one word to describe this man which wasn’t to do with food; my absolute best bit was right at the end when he told her that he had the Latin word for mirror tattooed in a hard-to-see place, to remind him to be constantly reflecting. Cracking stuff. The Latin for mirror is “speculum”.
Animals Collected
Animals Collected
Animals Collected
I used to be obsessed with reading people’s travel blogs, the more poorly conceived the better. My favourite piece from one of these was a self-important, exhaustive document of the author’s time in Thailand. Each paragraph was more riddled with casual racism and economic misunderstanding than the last. Their use of adjectives bordered on aggressive, their sentences were truncated in a manner that they had obviously admired elsewhere and thought was stylish writing, but instead read like they were being taught a new and unfamiliar dialect. They mused on their advanced emotional and spiritual growth like there was no such thing as death, and they finished up with an oily anecdote about a holiday romance with an Indian yoga instructor. They didn’t use one word to describe this man which wasn’t to do with food; my absolute best bit was right at the end when he told her that he had the Latin word for mirror tattooed in a hard-to-see place, to remind him to be constantly reflecting. Cracking stuff. The Latin for mirror is “speculum”.