1:11:03
I have to keep searching.
1:11:18
We've been everything.
1:11:20
Separatists, independantists,
sovereignists, sovereignty-associationists.
1:11:25
At first we were existentialists.
1:11:28
We read Sartre and Camus.
1:11:30
Then Fanon,
we became anti-colonialists.
1:11:33
We read Marcuse and became Marxists.
-Marxist-Leninists.
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Trotskyists.
-Maoists.
1:11:39
After Solzhenitsyn we changed.
We were structuralists.
1:11:43
Situationists.
-Feminists.
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Demonstructionists.
-Is there an "ism" we haven't worshipped.
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Cretinism.
-God no. Think of Guo Jing.
1:11:53
Who was he? -An archeologist
with a skirt slit to the crotch.
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Even you remember. -In the 70s,
China opens up to the West.
1:12:03
She comes on a cultural exchange. The
university sends its trusty radical, me...
1:12:10
I enter the dining room of her hotel.
I spot her, and die.
1:12:20
Beauty that could melt Emperor Qin's
7000 terra cotta warriors.
1:12:24
I order tea, we make small talk.
1:12:27
I can see us doing Pekinese lotus.
-The Szechuan dragon.
1:12:32
To make myself appear intresting,
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I dive in: "Your country has achieved so much.
1:12:39
We're so envious. Your
Cultural Revolution is wonderful!"
1:12:46
Her lovely black eyes glaze over.
1:12:50
I'm mortified to realize
that she's thinking,
1:12:54
"He's either a CIA agent
or the worst cretin in the West."
1:12:59
So much for the lotus and dragon.