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More random thoughts: -What I learned, against my will, is that it’s impossible to live among a foreign people and not become changed by them. -Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. -The vodka, when served, was as pungent and wonderful as I had imagined it would be, the paint thinner I needed to strop down the stained, flaking walls of my interior. -… we Vietnamese men never even bothered to ask what woman wanted. I had not even a germ of an idea what Ms. Mori wanted. -Like us, Americans were suspicious of unfamiliar food, which they identified with the strangers who brought them. -The restaurant was redolent with the fragrance of home and resonant with its sounds, the chatter of our native tongue competing with heartfelt slurping. -The open secrets of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.