Thursday, January 12, 2017

Amazon's Jeff Bezos buys former Textile Museum in Kalorama, Dupont Circle neighborhood--

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/01/12/jeff-bezos-is-the-anonymous-buyer-of-the-biggest-house-in-washington/?utm_term=.8409a5ebb4de

I've been there so many times to see textiles, and right next door is the Burmese embassy.

So 2300 will be worth a lot now too.

Burmese dissidents take note.

KMKaung
1-12-2017

I have a copy of the Hall book--it's a very thick paperback-so--hard to read in one sitting and I prefer print books.

I have an almst identically thick compendium of writings in Ceylon/Sri Lanka--called The Sri Lanka Reader. I read a bit at a time as I need...