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But it is the same misery that is all around us.
The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery.
I dont think they they sing.
They just screech in pain.
Its an unfinished country.
The only thing that is lacking is is the dinosaurs here.
Its like a curse weighing on an entire landscape.
And whoever … goes too deep into this has his share of this curse.
So we are cursed with what we are doing here.
Its a land that God, if he exists, has has created in anger.
Its the only land where where creation is unfinished yet.
Taking a close look at at whats around us there there is some sort of a harmony.
It is the harmony of … overwhelming and collective murder.
And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle.
But its true, Herzog plays a mysterious figure inThe Mandalorian,which premieres today onDisney+.
I see two, three, maybe four films per year.
Among those rarefied few films was the original, animatedLion King,which Herzog calls wonderful.
So whatdoesHerzog watch when hes not ignoring the existence of Favreaus movies?
As I always say, the poet must not close his eyes, must not avert them.
