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[0] phantasmagoric Battambang [1] 2 MB [2] 
Battambang boasts the rapidly-fading remnant charm of a French riverfront colony. A few blocks back from the river, a few grisly modern hotels and markets give out almost at once to crowded housing and dirt lanes. Down one towards sunset, we paused to listen to this maddeningly abstruse P.A. broadcast: a Morton Feldman ritual, a rehearsal by novice musicians? I will never know. A few hundred feet later, we passed a pink-lit bordello, advertised by listless towel-clad twelve year olds (I would guess) perched on the porch.
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