Word: klees
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...noon, and another round of shelling has begun in Komura. As the earth shudders, men drop into bunkers near a thick stand of bamboo trees. Nobody talks, but with each blast, the muscles in the men's faces tighten. Saw Klee Moo's face, however, remains smooth. When a rocket explodes nearby, shaking the ammunition crate where Saw Klee Moo crouches, he smiles. Saw Klee Moo is nearly 15 and certain that he will never be hit by a bomb...
When the shelling subsides, soldiers stretch out in their shelters, supine and seemingly impassive. Only the incessant chewing of betel nuts hints at stress. When they are not chewing, the men smoke cheroots. And when their tobacco runs out, they smoke rolled-up pieces of newspaper. Saw Klee Moo dangles a stick of paper out of the side of his mouth like a fat cigar, but he keeps it unlighted. The children fighting alongside their elders are too young to have developed nervous habits...
...week earlier, Saw Klee Moo was part of a 15-man reconnaissance patrol that was ambushed in the jungle by a six-man Burmese platoon. The Karens outnumbered the Burmese but, taken by surprise, didn't have time to seek cover. Saw Klee Moo and the others just froze and shot at the enemy, raking everything in sight with automatic fire. He doesn't remember how long he stood there, firing madly, but eventually the Burmese withdrew, dragging their wounded with them. It was the first time Saw Klee Moo had encountered the enemy face to face. Asked...
...such other Belgian-born painters as James Ensor and Rene Magritte. Like them, Folon took a strong turn for the fantastic, serving up the quotidian in images dreamy or irreal. But Folon's pictures, compact and whimsical, have always owed more to the purposefully childlike simplicity of Paul Klee than to hallucinatory or surrealistic styles...