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“
It’s a great metaphor. For what? I don’t know to this day. But I know it’s a great metaphor.
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Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?
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― Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
― Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
