Excellent! There's no going back home, even if it's just a different coast. Cheers

I wish I had taken more notice of S.M`s story`s as a young man, I think I could of saved myself from making a lot of mistakes, Still, I got through and now pushing 80 years old, I can sit back, light my pipe ( tobacco English mixture ) and enjoy his wonderful works. Thank you!!!

@gregburma

19 күн бұрын

I'm age 73 and this is my first hearing of this story- which I found to be immensely enjoyable- perhaps because I had lived in the far east for 22 years and I too felt "lost" when I came back to what I now feel is a ruined and corrupted country; it's not only that- the fact is that no-one is interested in hearing about the far east- it's an unknown experience to people here, and I in turn had lost touch with friends and struggled to cope with what I feel is now worse than a third world banana republic in its lack of morality, and of cohesive community and shared values whereby cheating, lying and petty crime- even violent crime is simply accepted as a way of life and our justice system is well and truly broken and the acceptance of the ethos which Bunter Boris loves so much- the world of "greed is Go(o)d"- trash the infrastructure, trash the environment, lets go for a quick grab of the goodies and avoid all taxation for the rich- -for residents here, it has been a gradual degradation but it really hit me after my long absence! Culture shock UK! (and Brits think the far east is corrupt!!) I've read all of Maugham's books, but none of his short stories apart from the very famous ones, so this really was a treat!

@sharimeyers292

14 күн бұрын

What a beautiful comment. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy!!

@sleethmitchell

12 күн бұрын

it's my wonderful mistakes that shine and keep me warm now that i have passed three score and ten.

@gerrybailey447

11 күн бұрын

The man that never made a mistake never made anything!

What a story! Mirage is such a good title! Life itself is a mirage. The story makes me melancholic

Thank you, and I love the music too! 👍❤️

Wonderful story…. The details thrust me into a world that is truly no longer. SM is a great writer.

@wendybryan6071

11 күн бұрын

I disagree. Opioid addiction is still a reality and very difficult to kick. It's now thought that any addiction is the result of trauma.

Thank you for working through the Maughem cannon

@tashuys

19 күн бұрын

Agreed, this is such a treat

@djpokeeffe8019

19 күн бұрын

@@tashuyscanon

@riverbend100

14 күн бұрын

Delete the second 'n' and I believe you :-)

@snowyowl6892

12 күн бұрын

AMEN. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@stevec2993

10 күн бұрын

Change E to A.

I read a fair bit of Maughm when I was younger. 'Razor's Edge' was a really formative book for me. I dipped into one story a few weeks ago, thinking I'd find him just ever so quaint, at this stage in my life. I couldn't have been more wrong. He may be more vital than ever because the class identifications his characters get hung up in are all the more vivid for their archaity as the self-blinding ego structures that they are. There are analogues in every time and place and we meet them daily. Maughm strikes me as literature's counterpart to Jung. Thanks for the great recitation.

My father’s second favourite author…now I know why. Listening to Maugham in the dark is like consuming a meal, a very satisfying one. By the way, dad’s favourite author was Hemmingway. Thank you for uploading these stories for us ❤️🙏

Thank you 🙏

Very so appreciated

Love the English language, Maugham's Literacy!♥️

@Brainteaser5639

19 күн бұрын

He used as a tool to reach most those who speak it and not just those who feel they own it. No one owns a language. It's like religion. It belongs to anyone who seeks it, and the more one dwells in it, the more they may feel as if they belong.Genius!

@Brainteaser5639

19 күн бұрын

"The Letter"by this guy is a gem when it comes to emmoliency of using English as a tool to engage another in the mind.

@harbinger2838

19 күн бұрын

The master of the short story seconded by Guy de Montpassant.

The old places were gone, the people were different, perhaps it would be a good thing to go back to China…. It reminds me of the quote. When a man travels too much he becomes a straining his own country,

Home is only a state of mind.

Thank you kind Sir

Be nice to know what the music is!

You can almost hear the creak of the malacced bench as the opium raddled expat reclines to reprise his life, one smoke ring at a time.

A mirage in the hand is worth two in the bush.

"What made you put up Galsworthy do you read his books?"," No I didn't know he wrote books, I like his face"

I love these stories and the narrator. Lovely.

Ismt this what the image of the words "lotus eaters" has conveyed? a dream that is visited in the same reliable way every night? And the best part, according to the character in the story, is that despite all the myrad thoughts that come into his mind every night, it is essentially unchanged from the night before. And he begins again to think/dream. He has enough saved away to continue as a lotus eater until the very end...but what is this time period, the time before WW1? There was very little change that would have an effect on his life, right? He could continue on....gradually, a few more years.....

I also love this part of the world, I will never go back to Europe again.

@Shineon83

19 күн бұрын

Really?….I spent 4 years there-but could never adjust to the overcrowding, the daily humidity, the general unhygenic surroundings--and the constant, fishy smells 😂

@brunovanhove1832

19 күн бұрын

"Never" , is a long time, even for mortals! And Europe is dying a slow dead anyway, terminal and no way back, but as always ,the patient will be the last one to know !

@rheinhartsilvento2576

19 күн бұрын

​@brunovanhove1832 Oh don't worry. We know😊🙃😆

A great writer. British literature as the russian - my big favorites! ❤

Loving these

Thank you all for your comments. They keep the spirit of the story going.

@MariaLopez-xg2eu

17 күн бұрын

All the comments are so inspiring....

Soooo lavishly British😊❤

It’s a hopeless life because he destroyed his integrity.

What a hopeless life, from start to finish. I wonder why?

@Brainteaser5639

19 күн бұрын

There needs not to be an explanation why. What will be will be otherwise, there will be no story such as this I have personally come to accept. Why are you the way you are. Every reason you may give may be cooked or reserved in the subconscious mind Who knows?

@anotherblonde

19 күн бұрын

If he had set sail in a true calling at the start he mightn't have got side tracked so easily into "trade"?

😁👍🌻

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏💕

What the heck was that about?

Bully.