road? Tell us about Soapy's land. What made you give it back to the Indians? Again, as I said, I'm not much for interviews. I never was very good at public speaking, so maybe we could... - What's this? - A quote from Soapy's favourite book. Sums up his feelings about the land he gave you. Why don't you read it? Oh. Uh, OK, sure. Apparently, this is a quote from Chief Seattle, dated 1852. Go? OK. "The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land." "But how can you buy or sell the sky, the land?" "The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth." "All things are connected, like the blood that unites us all." "Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand of it." "Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." "Your destiny is a mystery to us." "What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered?" Or will some materialistic, money-grubbing, short-sighted subhuman sell it to other materialistic, money-grubbing subhumans, so they can ravish the land and cover it with concrete so they can pay less tax? I know all about your reasons, all 50,000 of them. Half of which is mine, by the way. Not that I'd touch it. I can't believe I thought there was hope for you. Because you are the most vile, odious, waste of corpuscles I have ever seen! Maggie. Maggie, wait! That was great! Did you get all that? Maggie, Maggie! Maggie, wait. It's not just your lying and your cheating that bothers me. It's your whole... everything. You wanna talk about "whole everything", huh? You do not care about people's feelings. All you care about is you and New York and your precious career! I did not get off the plane and say that I am Marcus Welby, kindly physician and all-around swell guy. I was fully prepared to do my time in Anchorage, but I am contractually manacled to this tundra under false pretences. So if I resort to some unscrupulous practices to right a greater wrong... Look! Where's Amnesty International when it comes to me? So you're an amoral cretin and you admit it upfront. Well, let me tell you something, buster. That does not excuse you! Soapy was wrong! Wrong about what? What the...? Oh, good. Great, wonderful. Thanks, O'Connell. This is delightful. Holling, tell us about the real Alaska. Um... I'm not sure what you mean. Can you turn your right hand over so we can see the calluses? Good eye. Can you think of some incident that depicts what Soapy loved about Alaska? There was the time that he raced the dogs in the Iditarod. Did he see it as a metaphor for the hero's journey into the wilderness to face himself? Um... He thought it was fun. Soapy used to say that Alaska wasn't just a state, but... a state of mind. Hogwash is a state of mind. You might as well get rid of those cute visions that Soapy put into your idealistic college heads. Alaska is not a place to run away from the worid. Alaska is the worid. You got warm weather resorts and cold weather resorts. We've got restaurants. We've got hotels. We've got shopping. You've got camping, boating, ice fishing. And that is just a drop in the bucket to what we will have in a couple of years. Now, people don't want rugged. People want clean towels. And people like Soapy Sanderson, who give the whole worid the idea that Alaska's full of rednecks livin' in shacks, make my butt tired! - Ed? - Oh. Sorry. I'm sorry, Mr Minnifield. Can you say that all again? Well, sure. Uh... Where was I? Your butt was tired. Continuing with the Soapy Sanderson tribute, here's a favourite of Soapy's. I like it myself. Little Jimmy Dickens, "Take an Old Cold Tater ". All right. Well, the way I see it, if you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. And when you're somewhere you ought to be there because... it's not about how long you stay in a place, but what you do while you're there, and, when you go, is ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Космические пришельцы на английском - текст Корабль чудовищ на английском - текст Галактика 1980 на английском - текст Ежик в тумане на английском - текст Жертвы и убийцы на английском |