"He had built a major industry in a remote and little-known country whose language he never learned to speak; he had become an authority on art that, previously, he scarcely knew existed and had assembled a collection that attracted scholars from all over the world; he had built a home that was a work of art in itself and one of the landmarks of Bangkok; and, in the process of doing all this, he had become a sort of landmark himself, a personality so widely known in his adopted homeland that a letter addressed simply 'Jim Thompson Bangkok' found its way to him in a city of three and a half million people."
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