Hundreds crowded the stoned ruins of Angkor
Every temple we cycled to,
packed with tourists and more tourists and more tourists still
grasping for a glimpse of some sacred history of Empire
a lost era
a faraway, distant... distant , lost memory...
A religious Empire slave-built,
Stone.
The Khmer Empire
Buddhist-Hindu, not quite one nor the other, nor did it really pretend to be, for it was and must have been, many many different things...
Someone European wanted to take a picture of me.
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