Bamboo Leaves Author:Brian Taylor Disabled beggars with plastic begging cups; Ferraris, a snow white Bugatti Veyron and a swimming pool filled with ice for New Year's Day; westernised nose jobs, lady boys and budget sex changes; Ghosts and Spirit Doctors; mediums offering lunch to the spirits that possess them; body snatchers lurking below motorway bridges; menus offering one-da... more »y dry pig and son-in-law's testicles. Temples thundering out their message that all this is impermanent, not-self and suffering. There is poetry (and humour) in everyday happenings even without poetic language. They reveal dimensions and levels of being which we are usually unaware of because we don't believe in them. We believe what we see but we tend to see what we believe. Here, the lives of men and women are rounded not with a sleep but a silence. They have a bareness and ordinariness, which is itself extraordinary. The incidents are recorded as they were, though the perspective and tone varies.« less