Author: Lesley Lebkowicz Andrew Madigan Barry Gittins
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Lesley Lebkowicz, Andrew Madigan, Barry Gittins
- 02 August 2016
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My friend, new to Mandalay, never before in Asia, sighs as she sees the east- and west-bound cars and rickshaws slow to a ragged fringe across the intersection. The north- and south-bound take their turn in the same gentle, fearless lack of order. Ah, she says, see how aware they are, each of the other. Such harmony: you can tell it's a Buddhist country. Spoilsport, I point to where, so easily ignored, enmeshed in a thicket of wire overhead, lights flicker: green, amber, red.
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