2017年10月5日木曜日

Mandalay@Burma to Kamakura



The British foreign secretary was caught uttering the opening verse to Rudyard Kipling's The Road to Mandalay when he visited the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist site in Myanmar's capital, Yangon. Kipling’s poem captures the nostalgia of a retired serviceman looking back on his colonial service and a Burmese girl he kissed. Johnson’s impromptu recital was so embarrassing that the UK ambassador to Myanmar, Andrew Patrick, was forced to stop him. The incident was captured by a film crew for Channel 4 and will form part of a documentary, Boris Johnson: Blond Ambition, to be broadcast on Sunday at 10.05pm. Britain colonised Myanmar from 1824 to 1948 and fought three wars in the 19th century, suppressing widespread resistance

Boris Johnson caught on camera reciting Kipling in Myanmar temple
Source: Channel 4
Saturday 30 September 2017 06.45 EDT









Circus Circus Enterprises bought the Hacienda for $80 million in 1995. They closed it on December 1, 1996, and imploded it on New Year's Eve, 1996. The Mandalay Bay project was introduced on December 31, 1996, as Hawaiian-themed, "Project Paradise" and had a cost of $950 million. In February 1998 the project was renamed Mandalay Bay to evoke the exotic tropical romanticism of the poem Mandalay[1].

"Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in the collection Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, the first series, published in 1892. The poem colourfully illustrates the nostalgia and longing of a soldier of the British Empire for Asia's exoticism, and generally for the countries and cultures located "East of Suez", as compared to the cold, damp and foggy climates and to the social disciplines and conventions of the UK and Northern Europe.





















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匿名 さんのコメント...

ワイが勝手に思ってるだけっすけどエクスカリバーって
この物質世界で人間が生き残るための知恵や法則の比喩表現っすよね
昨今よく出てくる見えない刃がまさにそれっすわ
そして鞘は自己治癒能力=免疫力を表す
どこにでも存在してるけどどこにもない
誰にでも掴めるし手に入れられるけど使いこなせない
相応しくない者が手に入れようとしたり使おうとすると誰一人例外なくあの世行き
何でも他人頼みの日本人にはまがいもののエクスカリパーがお似合いですかなw