The most cacophonous of all nights
December 30th 2008 On Sunday night soon after I got back from Bangkok and was settling back into being “home,” a tremendous noise began outside in the street. I went out on the balcony to see what the deal was, and I could see that across the way there was a performance of some sort going on that sounded suspiciously like Chinese opera (high-pitched voices, clanging that sounds like trash cans are being banged
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