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AMY TAN room on the other side. It was like a symphony for the plague, all tubas, bassoons, and a repetitious refrain of squeaky flutes. At midnight, Marlena finally ceased her visits to the bathroom. But then, one floor below, a rowdy group of Burmese men took over. They were smoking and shouting, stamping their feet and clanking bottles. The fumes of cheroots and cheap liquor rose to the rooms above. Marlena pounded the floor and shouted: “Shut up!” After a while, Harry spoke to her through the paper-thin wall. “Marlena, dearest, try to rest. I’ll take care of this.” He went downstairs and knocked on the door of the offending group. A red-eyed man answered, his upper body weaving in circles as if he had just been punched. Fetid alcohol blasted <strong>from</strong> his slack mouth. Harry saw there were five men. They were gambling. Their blood alcohol must have been pure palm toddy, their brains saturated. What could he say that would possibly bring these men to reason? A few minutes later, Harry was back in his room. He could hear the drunken men trying to be quiet as they exited downstairs. They tripped on a lamp cord, broke a windowpane, cleared their throats of mucus with motorcycle-throttle intensity, and lobbed spittle onto whatever stood in their way. In their hands were a total of fifty Amer ican dollars, their surprise winnings, courtesy of Harry Bailley. They were not leaving as a favor to Harry. He had suggested only that they be quiet. On their own accord, they decided to sneak out before they had to pay their hotel and liquor bill. It was a very bad decision on their part. Theft in the military-run Myanmar is a seri ous matter. You would be extremely lucky to get away with it, fool ish to try. And weaving down the road does not improve your chances of avoiding bad luck. Ten miles down the road, they ran their car into a shallow ditch to avoid a Nat on a white horse. It sprang into the middle of the road <strong>from</strong> a clump of jacaranda trees. Shortly after that, two military policemen, one tall, one stout, 194
SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING arrived with rifles aimed at the men’s heads. “It was a Nat,” the men kept saying. The police examined documents, confiscated fifty American dollars, two hotel blankets and five towels, and pushed the hotel thieves onto a truck bed. The truck sped away, taking them down a black ribbon of road that soon disappeared. 195
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AMY TAN Mangshi. She was holding a
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AMY TAN Harry again couldn’t help
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AMY TAN few months earlier, the roa
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AMY TAN I would have advised my fri
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AMY TAN they come at night and do t
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AMY TAN The man laughed slightly.
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AMY TAN they hung bamboo-lattice ha
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AMY TAN women shot back, “We knew
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