Sunday, March 11, 2007

Tocho and Skyscrapers of West Shinjuku


From Werner Herzog's film, Fitzcarraldo, talking with the two missionaries at Saramizia in the remote Amazon:
Fitzcarraldo (looking at a textbook): How can anyone learn patriotism from a school book?
First Missionary: The government requires it. The natives get used to it like vaccination.
Second Missionary: The children already feel like Peruvians. The other day I asked them, "Are you Indians?" "No," they said, "Not us, the ones up the river are." Then I asked, "What are Indians?" They said, "Indians are people who can't read and who don't know how to wash their clothes."
Fitzcarraldo: And what do the older people say?
First Missionary: Well, we can't seem to cure them of the idea that our everyday life is only an illusion behind which lies the reality of dreams.

Metropolitan Government Buildings, Shinjuku

Night Street Corner, Hatsudai

Shinjuku Park Tower

Waiting, Tokyo Tower

Tokyo Tower