Travels in a Thin Country (2012)
“Victor Jara, folk singer, 1970 There can be no better land to live in than this one.
Pedro de Valdivia, letter from Chile to Charles V of Spain, 1545 It was unfortunate that we had planned such an early start the next morning that we had to wake the old man up again to let us out. I was to set off on a quest to discover one of the communes reputedly concealed at the top of the valley. I had heard about them from Chileans I had met in London when I was organizing the trip; everyone seemed to kno...w about these communes, but nobody had been to one, and I had failed to obtain any reliable information on the subject when I made enquiries in Santiago – though everyone there had heard about them, too. I just had to go. James was off to spend a week in the south, so we said goodbye in the square, too numbed by the after-effects of the previous night to feel sad. ‘I must take a photograph of you,’ he said, ‘in case you’re never seen again.’ The location of these communes (if they existed) was not arbitrary; not at all.MoreLess
Pedro de Valdivia, letter from Chile to Charles V of Spain, 1545 It was unfortunate that we had planned such an early start the next morning that we had to wake the old man up again to let us out. I was to set off on a quest to discover one of the communes reputedly concealed at the top of the valley. I had heard about them from Chileans I had met in London when I was organizing the trip; everyone seemed to kno...w about these communes, but nobody had been to one, and I had failed to obtain any reliable information on the subject when I made enquiries in Santiago – though everyone there had heard about them, too. I just had to go. James was off to spend a week in the south, so we said goodbye in the square, too numbed by the after-effects of the previous night to feel sad. ‘I must take a photograph of you,’ he said, ‘in case you’re never seen again.’ The location of these communes (if they existed) was not arbitrary; not at all.MoreLess
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