Comments on: Of Rice and Men https://www.gregtodiffer.com/of-rice-and-men/ Stories, rants & observations about expat life in Asia's craziest city Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: rikker https://www.gregtodiffer.com/of-rice-and-men/#comment-7 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:05:28 +0000 http://gregtodiffer.dreamhosters.com/?p=113#comment-7 Also, for anyone who reads the full paragraph, Nicholl is wrong about “farang” coming from “francais”, of course. I wrote ever-so-cursorily about it http://rikker.blogspot.com/2008/10/farang-stuff.html“ rel=”nofollow”>here. Just throwing it out there.

]]> By: rikker https://www.gregtodiffer.com/of-rice-and-men/#comment-6 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:53:49 +0000 http://gregtodiffer.dreamhosters.com/?p=113#comment-6 I was able to track down where I must have read it, though not the original source.

The book I read it in was Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma, 1988, by Charles Nicholl. You can see enough of the quote from the Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=nJlGAAAAMAAJ&q=%2B%22do+not+grow+rice%22+%2Bsiam&dq=%2B%22do+not+grow+rice%22+%2Bsiam&ei=wfK-SbegH47OkwSUvaDHAg&pgis=1“ rel=”nofollow”>snippet view to recognize the quote.

To save me from digging up my paper copy, turns out the 2002 book Traveler’s Tales Thailand also http://books.google.com/books?id=e3BUWILHSDcC&pg=PA63&dq=%2B%22do+not+grow+rice%22+%2Bsiam&ei=wfK-SbegH47OkwSUvaDHAg“ rel=”nofollow”>quotes the 1988 book. You can see the whole paragraph there.

According to it, Nicholl gives the source as Thai Nya Phuum, a “chronicle”. I can only guess that this title in Thai is ไทยเนหือภูมิ, but I’ve never heard of such a book, and neither has Google. I wonder whether Nicholl had an original source, or if he was passing on something pithy he heard/read elsewhere. I want to get to the bottom of this.

]]> By: Greg https://www.gregtodiffer.com/of-rice-and-men/#comment-5 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:42:47 +0000 http://gregtodiffer.dreamhosters.com/?p=113#comment-5 I’ve searched and searched. No luck. But the guy who wrote it was a (comic) genius.

]]> By: rikker https://www.gregtodiffer.com/of-rice-and-men/#comment-4 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:47 +0000 http://gregtodiffer.dreamhosters.com/?p=113#comment-4 I know I’ve read this before.. do you know the source?

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