WALKING THE FREUD - DIALOGUE WITH URUGUAYAN SURREALIST, CARLOS FLEITAS
CF: Yes, everyone thinks that the country they live in is the center of the world, and that others such as LAm are but barbarians.
This is shallow thinking and ignorance. LAm is quite colorful and more diverse than Europe and maybe LAm people have more authentic things to say. Some have suffered a lot, a real lot and lots of human beings are extremely poor. Funny thing, in the UK half of the pets are obese...Can you think of something more immoral...
And Salvador yes great, its capital city Bahia is something beyond imagination. I do love Brazil, everything is full of contradictions and surprises.
PM: my student Milena told me about the beaches to the north of the cities, in Salvador and all around the Brazilian coast, are magnificent and probably far, far better than any beaches in Europe. I have two Colombian students, Camilla and Ximena and another Brazilian student, Jacqueline who attends infrequently. Generally they are livelier, friendlier than Europeans but they lack education in the European sense which is some knowledge of the past or literature or art. Of course they may regard us Europeans as an arrogant bunch of bastards, but I for one am always eager to learn more and now that I know about those beaches, I'm tempted to travel to Brazil, seek out the sun, relax and go swimming. I know that British people have little interest in LAm, apart from the Malvenas, and are probably only interested in those islands because of the resources of oil and gas that might be exploited in the near future. In a sense there's a blood for oil exchange, as long as it is not their upper-class blood, of course. The same holds true for Iraq which is now being forgotten about by the media. Even my students are surprised when I mention it and think that I am obsessed with it. Out of sight, out of mind. They have no concept of the unbelievable tide of humanity or even that some British people wish we werent there.
CF: Montevideo, what it is like. Well there are wonderful places (minor areas) and neighbourhoods that are terribly poor.
It has changed it's architecture for 60 or 70 years so there is nothing that is fluently, personally i dislike it most. Due to the fact of unemployment and underpaid jobs i can't leave the capital areas and go to small places by the sea which are scarcely populated and where i would truly like to be.
PM: Hola, took the students to the Museum on Thursday - a guy from Rome, 3 Spanish women (one from Zaragoza, Spain, a Colombian from Bogota and another Colombian from a minor city that I hadn't heard of). They seemed to enjoy it a lot, definitely one of the best things in London to go and see. I don't like the new flat I'm in, but hopefully I won't be there for very long. It's in Canning Town, one of the most abysmal/horrible areas in London and I want out of there as soon as possible. But it is possible for me to leave, since, as a keyworker I'm entitled to subsidy. This will enable me to live in the better, quieter areas of north and west London. I must sound like a snob but since I'm earning money I'd like to live somewhere that has facilities and not just hundreds of people milling around, playing music loudly and behaving like pathetic teenagers. (most of these people are men) Okay its clearly very vibrant but also dark and terrible, there is concrete everywhere, just mile upon mile of blank tenement where thousands of people are just stuffed in to tiny, dank pisos. of course its digusting but if the people of a certain area have dignity and intelligence then this will show in everything they do. what is Montevideo like?
This is shallow thinking and ignorance. LAm is quite colorful and more diverse than Europe and maybe LAm people have more authentic things to say. Some have suffered a lot, a real lot and lots of human beings are extremely poor. Funny thing, in the UK half of the pets are obese...Can you think of something more immoral...
And Salvador yes great, its capital city Bahia is something beyond imagination. I do love Brazil, everything is full of contradictions and surprises.
PM: my student Milena told me about the beaches to the north of the cities, in Salvador and all around the Brazilian coast, are magnificent and probably far, far better than any beaches in Europe. I have two Colombian students, Camilla and Ximena and another Brazilian student, Jacqueline who attends infrequently. Generally they are livelier, friendlier than Europeans but they lack education in the European sense which is some knowledge of the past or literature or art. Of course they may regard us Europeans as an arrogant bunch of bastards, but I for one am always eager to learn more and now that I know about those beaches, I'm tempted to travel to Brazil, seek out the sun, relax and go swimming. I know that British people have little interest in LAm, apart from the Malvenas, and are probably only interested in those islands because of the resources of oil and gas that might be exploited in the near future. In a sense there's a blood for oil exchange, as long as it is not their upper-class blood, of course. The same holds true for Iraq which is now being forgotten about by the media. Even my students are surprised when I mention it and think that I am obsessed with it. Out of sight, out of mind. They have no concept of the unbelievable tide of humanity or even that some British people wish we werent there.
CF: Montevideo, what it is like. Well there are wonderful places (minor areas) and neighbourhoods that are terribly poor.
It has changed it's architecture for 60 or 70 years so there is nothing that is fluently, personally i dislike it most. Due to the fact of unemployment and underpaid jobs i can't leave the capital areas and go to small places by the sea which are scarcely populated and where i would truly like to be.
PM: Hola, took the students to the Museum on Thursday - a guy from Rome, 3 Spanish women (one from Zaragoza, Spain, a Colombian from Bogota and another Colombian from a minor city that I hadn't heard of). They seemed to enjoy it a lot, definitely one of the best things in London to go and see. I don't like the new flat I'm in, but hopefully I won't be there for very long. It's in Canning Town, one of the most abysmal/horrible areas in London and I want out of there as soon as possible. But it is possible for me to leave, since, as a keyworker I'm entitled to subsidy. This will enable me to live in the better, quieter areas of north and west London. I must sound like a snob but since I'm earning money I'd like to live somewhere that has facilities and not just hundreds of people milling around, playing music loudly and behaving like pathetic teenagers. (most of these people are men) Okay its clearly very vibrant but also dark and terrible, there is concrete everywhere, just mile upon mile of blank tenement where thousands of people are just stuffed in to tiny, dank pisos. of course its digusting but if the people of a certain area have dignity and intelligence then this will show in everything they do. what is Montevideo like?
posted by Paul Murphy at
August 25, 2008
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