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Your last paragraph brought home to me that we all, kings and paupers alike, are just hanging by a thread. The well heeled just don't seem to realise or acknowledge it.

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your writing has a beautiful flow, rising and ebbing depending on the subjects that tend to be about the people who are stuck in poverty, and if you dig a bit deeper you see their naked humanity

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That is a terrific presentation of your ethics in ethnography . I am glad to see these books come out. I am writing this month on your collected poems for my Viet Nam letter. Will see about a couple helpful sentences for Amazon when I’m done.

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Yo Dan,

Many thanks, man. Calm Vung Tau is here should you feel the need to pop over.

Linh

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Darnit Linh, I tried to post a review of Kafka, Anti-Semite and other artsy fartsy essays and found out that I don't meet Amazon's "minimum eligibility guidelines". Apparently, customers need to spend at least fifty bucks in any twelve month period in order to post reviews. With your output this last year, that shouldn't be difficult. Thank you for all of your work.

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Yo Troy,

I didn't know there was such a rule. Since my readers aren't exactly fans of Amazon, this explains, I think, why I have almost no reviews for my recent books.

Thanks for trying, though!

Linh

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