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It’s a great term and makes perfect sense, especially when used in tandem with the Occident.

When the traveler left the East he found himself quite disoriented, and found him self in California by occident.

We’ve met before and you know I’ve done it, but there’s something about meeting a Westerner in a seedy oriental bar that really can’t be replicated in this country. It’s why it’s a central point in many fantasy, sci fi, and dramatic movies. You’ve got to be cut from a certain cloth to love that shite and survive it if things go to hell. It’s a wonderful if not threatening environment filled with gambling, smoking, and opium.

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Posted by fr33manator

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Posted on 2/23/21 at 7:03 pm to OMLandshark

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It’s a wonderful if not threatening environment filled with gambling, smoking, and opium.

It’s dangerous, exotic, intoxicating. You are a stranger in a strange land, filled with foreign scents, foreign flavors. Everything is something you aren’t. The sensation of hearing a hundred conversations buzzing around you and not knowing what’s being said. The thrill of catching a word or two here and there that you know. Trying to communicate in a broken tongue and being lucky to have the favor returned.

There are exotic women to thrill you, their skin, their hair, their smell...everything similar but just not quite.

The customs, the culture, and then like a shipwrecked survivor bobbing in the ocean, being pulled into the raft by someone who speaks the mother tongue, in whatever dialect, is a welcome relief.

I’m honestly a bit jealous of your travels.

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