“At 2:06 in the afternoon of October 14, 1991, the sun hit the mystical sculpture at just the right angle, sending a beam of divine light across the four-lane, divided street, straight through a door-sized opening on the other side of a gaily painted fifteen foot wall of corrugated steel sheeting. There it passed into Khlong Pai Signtoh slum and landed right on the twelve year-old Gope Januwong’s forehead, causing him to squint as a trio of Swedish journalists pointed their snub-nosed camera at him through the corrugated sheeting to reveal the slummy innards behind the façade. The image was bounced off satellites and into Swedish TV sets, which made it look as though Gope’s Little squinting face was strained with the pains of hunger.” –Alan Klima, The Funeral Casino