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Gertrude Stein "liked prepositions best of all". This is because they are the most important part of speech, placing things in their place and context, giving direction to the preceding or subsequent verb. An example of this can be found in the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, about an hour's drive out of Bangkok, past the coconut farms where monkeys are trained to choose and then hurl the nuts from on high, and the miles and miles of salt flats where the heat sucks water into the hot, wet winter sky, leaving a fresh crop of sea salt in muddy fields. The markets are strewn along canals filled with longtail boats propelled either by a small outboard motor with an extended moto-rudder, or an old lady in a bamboo hat. Some boats contain tourists, and the others contain fruit, food (rice, fried battered pieces of pork/chicken/vegetable etc.), or just about every kind of Thai souvenir - ranging from small wooden frogs with serrated backs so you can stroke 'em with a stick and hear them croak, to picture frames containing dead tarantulas and scorpions. Stalls line each side of the canal, and the vendors stretch out towards the passing boats, waving their merchandise and grinning. In this part of the world it's important to remember that you are being sold at and not to.


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