jumping perhaps 2-years-old, and she was alone walking and jumping and celebrating life while i was walking with my sadness mourning. and then i realized she was stopping and then walking again and she stopped each time she was hearing birds singing in the trees. and then i looked at her with more attention to see she would stop, hear the birds and encourage. so when she applauded the birds, my inner part still alive, still able to celebrate life, was woken up and the same happened with the sources of mirrors and all the other books i have written since come a long list of books. .. they re i painted on the walls of caves, women, men, houses, seagulls, they re ageless. they were born thousands upon thousands of years ago, but they are born anew everytime someone looks at them. how could our ancestors of long ago communicate. how could a man who kills wild beast with his bare hands create images in this caves. hough did he manage to draw those lines but break free of the s
thing i every now makes re-read the next little story. how do you create your stories? but i think we should take a break and then we will come back and talk about that in the second part. guest: yes. okay. . . after words with eduardo galeano and john dinges continues. host: ayaan john dinges and i am talking with eduardo galeano and we are talking about his book, mirrors. edgardo is particularly important in latin america because he has captured the long history of repression and exploitation immigration and conquests and done this and a number of books and that wasn t enough just to talk about latin america. he s now taken on the history of the world with his new book, mirrors. i wanted, as we broke we were talking about your way of putting these stories together. one of the people i guess it was an interview that i read in which you were talking about your way of writing and you use the word [inaudible] rich is feeling thinking. guest: it s a language, a feeli
amy is my syndicator for radio. very cool. hi brow. and kaytlin micelle you if she needs something here this summer. you re working for the senator. regardless of his party. i ll get back to you. . you would be fantastic. you would like up that screen. absolutely. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] same not a word. nothing about the obra book. but coming soon. look for it. [laughter] it was a pretty good show. thank you for all of your patience. it is frustrating stuff and i appreciate that. i ve started a lot of talk shows and although i m sure this happens all the time so anytime we could be of help let us help. sam runs the washington station that has me on the air. nice to. thanks for being here. i m actually from pennsylvania. it s different especially when i went to college but it s different. you guys have a great time. lynn sweet. thanks for being on the show. it s nice to see you. likewise i usually the one on their light. why, o
host: i think it is less serious when it says of almost everyone because everyone is in this book and particularly people that are not usually mentioned in the world history. give a couple of examples of the kind of stories that you are telling them that you think characterize what kind of book this is. guest: yes, it s my intention was i never know if the result is the level of the good intentions that the good intention was to rescue the studio for the terrestrial rainbow. we are much more than what we are told we are. official history but has multilayered our past. it is mutilating present history. so, we are much more than what we are told for instance in visible. most people doing history and making history. women suppressed, belittled in official history just released the quality place in. black people, indians, the south of the world, china, india, i don t know. so many callers to be added to our rainbow, which is much more beautiful than the of their one in the sk
giving well or not like a professor and a pupil. so this is a word i don t like at all. host: we are almost ready to wrap up and i wanted to note that in many ways the mirrors is a very dark book and a lot of ways there is a lot of theory terrible things told in this book. religion comes in for enormous criticism. europe comes for terrible criticism. latin america is in many ways a victim. but i don t think of it as a pessimistic book, and i wanted to ask you as the final statement about your sense of optimism in this history that you see is still unfolding. guest: a source of optimism is that history doesn t into and also the certitude we may be contemporaries and compatriots of people weren t far away from the country and far away from nor time if you share with them a common law for justice in and freedom like happened with my two who were born in the united states and not latin-american, mark twain and spears. i remember mark twain was a leader of the antiimperialis