encounters Dai and other tribes of the south
a skinny and poor farmer finds Thubron and concludes that England must be a good place if it makes people as healthy-looking as he
*I think this inclusion of how Thubron imagines himself through Chinese eyes and what they admit to him shows me that he was much more than a traveler passing through, but a person trying to communicate with other people; I enjoy this personal contact (I wonder if Theroux will do the same in Africa)
*(though this is not related to the book) don't talk to me of feeling fortunate to be an American - don't go there - don't assume you have it made
pg 222: wonderful moment where he again tries to see himself in other's eyes: 'Momentarily I saw myself in his eyes - taller than anyone he had ever met, uncannily pale-haired, and fattened by the mystery called England. Inexplicably I was in his rubber grove.'
pg 225: observant, aware - 'To the south, beyond a profile of hills, the moon was rising over Burma, with a wheeling mass of unfamiliar stars.'
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