Faux Real: yesterday we went to the family stead which is on "Hames Ave" and she announced to us after we had brunch that she "Grew tired of being the matriarch and with in a year would become a woman of leisure again."
Faux Real: take that as your vestiges, dan
ralph: just like Cairo--everybody lives on their family street
ralph: and talks about Before.
Faux Real: interesting
Faux Real: i have always compared the south to china
Faux Real: we drink tea, eat rice, and worship our ancestors.
niteowl: just like in Malaysia, all the oldsters hang out in the Eurasian club reliving the glory days when they were the shitheels to the imperialists and enviously hated by anyone of colour
ralph: and all the snobs define themselves by their anglo- or franco-philia
bigjimslade: hey now
niteowl: as they do everywhere, actually
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