:05:04
a character took his revenge on society
by directing traffic at the crossroads.
:05:07
Luxury for them would be one of those large bottles of sake
that are poured over tombs on the day of the dead.
:05:42
I paid for a round in a bar in Namidabashi.
:05:44
It's the kind of place that allows people
to stare at each other with equality;
:05:47
the threshold below which every man is
as good as any other—and knows it.
:06:06
He told me about the Jetty on Fogo,
in the Cape Verde islands.
:06:09
How long have they been there waiting for the boat,
patient as pebbles but ready to jump?
:06:16
They are a people of wanderers,
of navigators, of world travelers.
:06:20
They fashioned themselves through cross-breeding here on these rocks
that the Portuguese used as a marshaling yard for their colonies.
:06:26
A people of nothing, a people of emptiness, a vertical people.
:06:30
Frankly, have you ever heard of anything stupider than to say to people
as they teach in film schools, not to look at the camera?
:06:51
He used to write to me: the Sahel is not only
what is shown of it when it is too late
:06:57
it's a land that drought seeps into like water into a leaking boat.