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By Alex Garland
The Khao San highway, Bangkok -- first cease for the hordes of rootless younger Westerners touring in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first evening there, in a not pricey visitor condominium, a fellow visitor slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."
The seashore, as Richard has come to profit, is the topic of a legend between younger tourists in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the ocean, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded through jungle, crops untouched for 1000 years. There, it truly is rumored, a delicately chosen overseas few have settled in a communal Eden.
Haunted by means of the determine of Mr. Duck -- the identify wherein the Thai police have pointed out the useless guy -- and his personal obsession with Vietnam videos, Richard units off with a tender French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to travelers. They notice the seashore, and it really is as appealing and idyllic because it is reputed to be. but through the years it turns into transparent that seashore tradition, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even lethal, undercurrents.
Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach by Alex Garland -- either a countrywide bestseller and his debut -- is a hugely finished and suspenseful novel that fixates on a new release of their twenties, who, stressed with the legacy of the previous iteration and saturated via pop culture, lengthy for an unruined panorama, yet locate it tricky to adventure the area firsthand.
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Qxd 4/16/02 4:42 PM Page 21 Women and Betrayal 21 not, after all, so odd, since – as everyone says – she is the most beautiful woman in Troy. It would be a mistake to interpret this last reflection as revealing vanity in Criseyde; an outstandingly beautiful woman can hardly be unaware of her own beauty, although social decorum obliges her to conceal her knowledge, as Criseyde recognises (‘Al wolde I that noon wiste of this thought’: II 745). Criseyde’s private awareness of her own beauty escapes being vanity precisely because the vigilant supervision of her more public self brings it under scrutiny and control.
And yet, having shown us Criseyde’s change of heart as a slow process of incremental adjustment, in the very next stanza Chaucer re-presents it with a brutal abruptness of style that becomes a characterisation of the deed itself: The morwen com, and gostly for to speke, This Diomede is come unto Criseyde; And shortly, lest that ye my tale breke, So wel he for hymselven spak and seyde That alle hire sikes soore adown he leyde; And finaly, the sothe for to seyne, He refte hire of the grete of al hire peyne.
Foryeveth it me, and that I yow biseche. The wise Plato seith, as ye may rede, The word moot nede accorde with the dede. If men shal telle proprely a thyng, The word moot cosyn be to the werkyng. I am a boystous man, right thus seye I: Ther nys no difference, trewely, Bitwixe a wyf that is of heigh degree, If of hir body dishonest she bee, And a povre wenche, oother than this – If it so be they werke bothe amys – But that the gentile, in estaat above, She shal be cleped his lady, as in love; And for that oother is a povre womman, She shal be cleped his wenche or his lemman.