And they dont sound alike, by any means
The word "kretek" itself is an onomatopoetic term for the crackling sound of burning cloves
He carries with him the memories of those wild summers at the ballpark in Portland but mostly clings to memories of their friendship and what he learned from Nelson, lessons that still ring true today
In the penultimate chapter of Tlooth , for instance, he causes a saturnine doctor to declare: My dear, in medicine the truth is a goal one cannot attain. Rather than truth itself, Mathews was interested in the construction of truth, the transformation of truth, the translation of truthand perhaps indeed more interested in those very principles themselves than in the way they inflect truth or the real or life or experience. For those latter things belong to the domain of things that are , whereas construction, transformation, and translation are all matters of becoming , and Harry Mathews was far more interested in becoming than in simple being
If there was ever an opportunity to demonstrate, rather than postulate about, the supposed benefits of a smoke free casino, Park MGM is probably it
Joint Press Release from Philip Morris International and China National Tobacco Corporation, 21 December 2005., 2005, Philip Morris International and China National Tobacco Corporation: Beijing
