The non-fiction book of interviews, documentation and investigative journalism, titled: "Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews
"I worked there once, very briefly, for 'the Keeper of the Manuscripts.'
We all went around with a bunch of keys tied to our waists, unlocking and
relocking every door we passed through, like a set of gothic housekeepers.
My job was to dredge through the correspondence archives, chuck out all the
rubbish and keep anything of interest.
In three whole months the most interesting (in their terms) thing I found
was a postcard from Bernard Shaw I think it was, asking to renew his books
(it was also a lending library in those days).
And a set of war-time letters
from an army widow claiming penury and many offspring and begging the
Keeper, in increasingly pathetic and desperate terms, to come and look at a
set of supposedly valuable manuscripts (etchings?) in her attic.
Found this most affecting, but was instructed to bin it along with the
rest."
-- Liz Turner
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