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“23 May 1981
On closer inspection it became clear to me that no one is on my side anymore, not a single person, none, no one, not a single one…. But I saw something the others did not see.”

For 3 years, Werner Herzog toiled in the Peruvian jungle to make a movie about a madman hauling a riverboat over a mountain by actually hauling a riverboat over a mountain.

His diary/documented descent into madness was a truly amazing read.

Werner Herzog's mordantly bleak outlook on life suits me so perfectly that I would happily read his account of a trip to the grocery store, but put him in the middle of the Amazon rainforest with an entire cast and crew (including the truly insane and brilliant Klaus Kinski) as they attempt to shoot a film (Fitzcarraldo), including amongst other things hauling a 360-ton steamship over a mountain by hand, and you have the recipe for a masterpiece.

I would totally read some of these titles 😂

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https://www.sadanduseless.com/soml/

#humor

#WelcometotheJungle Werner just loves it here.

"I see fornication and asphyxiation and choking, fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course there‘s a lot of misery, but it‘s the same misery that‘s all around us. The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don‘t think they sing; they just screech in pain."

Was taking this out of the closet for a picture but then realized the background looked neat. #JuneTunz

#marchmadness #bookthatfocusesonnature

While filming Fitzcarraldo in the Amazon, Werner went a little crazy. I quote:

"Nature here is vile and base... It's a land that God, if he exists has - has created in anger. It's the only land where - where creation is unfinished yet. Taking a close look at - at what's around us there - there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of... overwhelming and collective murder."