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“She returns with a round disk of stone and a thick stick of wood. It must be thanaka. The people, especially the women, wear it as a kind of powder, to absorb sweat and to protect their skin from the sun. Ground into a paste, it has a faintly sweet fragrance and a texture like fine wet clay. I wonder if it has healing properties; former political prisoners on the Thai border told me about using the paste on their scabies and insect bites while they were incarcerated. Men don’t wear it in an obviously cosmetic manner, as women do, but every man was once a small boy, and his mother smeared the delicate cream on his bare skin before he went outside to play.” Excerpt From: Connelly, Karen. “Burmese Lessons.” Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009. iBooks.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:13:49 +0000

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