Love letter to SEA

I've been meaning to compose a formal imitation of Spalding Gray's love letter to NYC since we discussed it class, and I finally did it.  I wrote it to Thailand, of course, and here it is:

Dear South East Asia,

            For four years, I lived with you and learned to cherish you. I came to you because I sought anomaly and found marvels everywhere I looked. I fled North America and came to Thailand, that kingdom on the peninsula of Indochina, where humid graciousness was paramount and everyone reserved judgment yet intimated uncanny spirit. You gave me an increase of concession because you are so extraordinary.

            When I was a student, my professor assigned an ethnography of Western Apaches. It explores wisdom's situation in physical places and in the preface one conception reads:

Consistent with mundane daily experience, spacial constructs remain unconsidered, because experiencing unnerving dislocation is not in the typical practice of most individuals. However resulting such experiences, superlative enlightenment emerges distinctly.

            That is always South East Asia for me.

I hope that my paraphrase of Keith Basso's preface to Wisdom Sits in Places isn't too convoluted.  Summarizing this notion of how we construct space for ourselves to Gray's syntax was challenging indeed!