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《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 80 (182):巴厘岛的历史  

But in the 1920s and 1930s
when an elite class of Western travelers discovered Bali
all this bloodiness was ignored as the newers agreed that this was truly "The Island of the Gods
" where "everyone is an artist" and where humanity lives in an unspoiled state of bliss. It's been a lingering idea
this dream; most visitors to Bali (myself on my first trip included) still endorse it. "I was furious at God that I was not born Balinese
" said the German photographer Gee Krauser after visiting Bali in the 1930s. Lured by reports of otherworldly beauty and serenity
some really A-list tourists started visiting the island—artists like Walter Spies
writers like No?l Coward
dancers like Claire Holt
actors like Charlie Chaplin
scholars like Margaret Mead (who
despite all the naked breasts
wisely called Balinese civilization on what it truly was
a society as prim as Victorian England: "Not an ounce of free libido in the whole cul-ture.")
The party ended in the 1940s when the world went to war. The Japanese invaded Indone-sia
and the blissful expatriates in their Balinese gardens with their pretty houseboys were forced to flee. In the struggle for Indonesian independence which followed the war
Bali be-came just as divided and violent as the rest of the archipelago
and by the 1950s (reports a study called Bali: Paradise Invented) if a Westerner dared visit Bali at all
he might have been wise to sleep with a gun under his pillow. In the 1960s
the struggle for power turned all of In-donesia into a battlefield beeen Nationalists and Communists. After a coup attempt in Jakarta in 1965
Nationalist soldiers were sent to Bali with the names of every suspected Communist on the island. Over the course of about a week
aided by the local police and vil-lage authorities at every step
the Nationalist forces steadily murdered their way through every township. Something like 100
000 corpses choked the beautiful rivers of Bali when the killing spree was over.