“The Man, the Men at the Station”

By Pico Iyer

Anthony Bello, Danielle Beggan, Jack Doyle

“Until two years ago, Maung-Maung told me,

he had never met anyone from outside Burma” (Iyer 44).

“In villages like his own, in the Shan States, people with opportunity might as well belong to another planet” ().

“Possibilities were scant in brutally oppressed Burma, and since the government had closed every door and locked every window, all that remained was such imaginings” ().

Oppression