 After reading Wright's "Encounter" article "Indonesian Notebook" (which was later published in "The Color Curtain"), Mochtar Lubis responded that Wright "wrote with great passion and feeling" and that “Mr.Wright’s notebook makes interesting reading" but that his Indonesian hosts, including "one of the best-known novelists", were "amazed to read Mr. Wright’s notebook…in which Mr. Wright quotes them saying things…to which they did not put meaning as accepted by Mr.Wright."