![]() ![]() Still, I don't think I'll lose that 'outsider' quality necessary to a writer. But there would be no story if we didn't open all the doors, so we've got to do it. As an artist - it's like opening all the doors in Bluebeard's castle. It's the reason I'm able to write Jasmine Nights, a serial for the Bangkok Post, which integrates the British, American and Thai cultures. This led to a number of other stories about Thailand, such as Lottery Night. So I wrote Fiddling For Water Buffalos, which was the most popular story I'd written up to that point. Because I agreed to do that, it set off a whole chain of emotional self-examinations. I had completely walled that part of my life away, never looked at it. "Fred Pohl said, 'Somtow, I'm doing this anthology of stories by people from different countries, and I want you to write a story about Thailand.' I've got to confess that until that moment, it had never even occurred to me to write about Thailand. ![]() Somtow, is coming to terms - both personal and literary - with his remarkable multicultural background and a lifetime of traveling. ![]()
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