- How can anyone learn patriotism from a school book?
- The Government requires it. The natives get used to it like vaccination. 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."
- And what do the older people say?
- 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.
De Fitzcarraldo, de Werner Herzog
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