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.

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