Quotations from *The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia*, 5 of 6
Nick Middleton
British

I told her that the British Embassy in Ulan Bator seemed to do very little as far as I could see. Four men and their wives to look after British interests in Mongolia? What British interests?
—Nick Middleton, The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia

So while Lamujab carried on, the rest of us all lined up across the railway track and ceremoniously pissed in the direction of the Soviet Union.
—Nick Middleton, The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia

Lamujab was looking noticeably less perplexed and may even have been enjoying herself. She asked Bulcsu and me continual questions about life in the West. What sort of food we ate, how big our flats were, which type of books did we like reading, did we travel about in England, what did the countryside look like, and what about the shops. But each one of our answers seemed to drive another nail into the coffin of her life in Mongolia, although we were trying hard to give her as unglossy an account as possible.
—Nick Middleton, The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia

Three years later when I returned to Ulan Bator, the discotheque had been closed down and the party was over. In Moscow President Gorbachev was gallantly trying to dismantle the beast that had emerged from the ideological test-tube some seventy years before. In Ulan Bator the disco-dancing advisers were packing their bags and heading for home. For them it was truly the last disco in Outer Mongolia.
—Nick Middleton, The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia

Behind us the Gobi plains were laid out flat and dark like the ocean.
—Nick Middleton, The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia