A placard that is to have effect at some distance must be in glaring colours; pathos calls for images that hallucinate.
"Émile Verhaeren"
Stefan Zweig
His best explanation was that geckos ate mosquitoes; in his youth, when snorting glue and swallowing amphetamines back in those days when his parents had died and he was working along with his brothers in a sidewalk restaurant and being molested as a "cheap date", he used to hallucinate about talking mosquitoes; so if the mosquitoes were Jatupon's only companion, they symbolized the self, a child of poverty that his name change to "Nawin" could not consume.
"An Apostate: Nawin of Thais"
Steven Sills