window where one can easily imagine him sipping a cup
of morning tea in a silk dressing gown, perhaps humming
a few bars from ���Mad Dogs and Englishman��� like those
inspired on a visit to The Oriental: ���In Bangkok / at twelve
o���clock/ They foam at the mouth and run.���
The authors honored in this wing are a reminder of the
hotel���s long and proud association with the literary world.
Coward, for example, was a frequent guest and was
particularly fond of the riverside terrace where, according
to his journal, ���we have drinks every evening watching the
liver-colored water swirling by and the steam tugs hauling
rows of barges upriver against the tide.��� Maugham, who
stayed in 1922, also found the terrace a restful place; he
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