Richard is doing great, as always, and is a long-term resident of Bangkok and a dose friend.
Paul, Jerry Schultz, and Eight-Finger Eddy can still be found on Anjuna Beach during the popular winter seasons.
Bach—I don't know. Leaving him was too painful for me to ask anyone if they've seen him, but I still have the ear from his elephant.
I missed Goa terribly for years after I left. One night in a New York City parking lot, I Looked up and saw a full moon. I mourned the full moon parties of the home I'd lost and hated the asphalt and concrete beneath my feet. I hated it and hated New York and hated everything in my life that wasn't India.
Today I've settled into a new home, a cyber home on the internet. Though I've been known for a while on CompuServe's CB under the name "Goa," I just this year discovered the phenomenon of MOO. Since returning to America, I've been enraptured by computers; and as a graduate student I worked part-time teaching computer programming. What I've now found on the MOO is a place where I can program fantasy things and meet fellow internet junkies, each of us interacting with one another's creations. I log on to the MOO many times a day and join the hundreds of people worldwide who are also logged on and who make up my cyber community.
On Chiba MOO, I've created a space called Anjuna Beach. I describe its sea and palm trees and have programmed robots named Monica, Mental, Dayid, and Ashley, who, every sixty seconds utter sentences like "Please pass the mirror." I've also programmed an object called Neal that dispenses LSD if you give it the right command.
While the MOO dazzles me with its futuristic technology, it also provides me with an identity group and allows me to incorporate the past into this innovative MOO present.
When I log off, my cyber body remains in my cyber "home"—Anjuna Beach, Goa.
About the Author
CLEO ODZER grew up in New York and, after graduating from high school, travelled throughout Europe and the Middle East before settling in Goa, India, in 1975. She returned to the United Stales in 1980, where she earned a PhD in anthropology; her dissertation on prostitution in Thailand was the basis for her first book, Patpong Sisters An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World (1994). Odzer lives in New York, where she works for Daytop, a drug rehabilitation organization. She is working on a new book about her adventures on the MOO, a programming society on the Internet.
Cover design by Monica Elias
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