Swimming to Cambodia
by Spalding Gray · first published 1987
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If you'd like to learn more about how the American bombing of Cambodia helped bring Pol Pot to power in a highly entertaining way, I'd recommend this section from Spalding Gray's monolog in Swimming to Cambodia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMCKk_7Hs8&t=1153
on “Laser Scans Unveil a Network of Ancient Cities in Cambodia” ↗If you like David Sedaris you might enjoy Spalding Gray's monologues. Swimming to Cambodia and Gray's Anatomy are my favorites.
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗…statues were of course destroyed. It certainly seem to be a common thread in communist revolutions: all that has gone before must be destroyed. Now I am going to see if I cannot find Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia.
on “The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016)” ↗…Spanish countryside after reading "The Sun Also Rises", and got lost in the countryside and drank red wine on the hills. I also visited the killing fields in Cambodia after reading "The Killing Fields" and "Swimming to Cambodia". It was fucking terrifying that this happened in my lifetime. On the other hand, I can see how stressful this is for locals, like both in Alaska and Spain who aren't asking for the influx. But at least…
on “'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness” ↗