Encounters at the End of the World Page #2

and with the Argonauts

and to those strange and amazing lands,

and that always stayed with me,

that fascination of the world,

and that I fell in love with the world

And it's been very powerful

and has been with me this whole time

HERZOG:
And how does it happen that

we are encountering each other here

at the end of the world?

I think that it's a logical place to find

each other because this place works

almost as a natural selection for people that

have this intention to jump

off the margin of the map,

and we all meet here where

all the lines of the map converge

PASHO V There is no point that is

south of the South Pole

And I think there is a fair amount

of the population here

which are full-time travelers

and part-time workers

So yes, those are the professional dreamers

They dream all the time,

and, I think, through them

the great cosmic dreams come into fruition,

because the universe dreams

through our dreams,

and I think that there is

many different ways for the reality

to bring itself forward, and dreaming

is definitely one of those ways

HERZOG As banal as McMurdo appears,

it turns out it is filled

with these professional dreamers

At night, I was laying

in my bed here in McMurdo

I am again walking across the top of B-15

Might as well be

on a piece of the South Pole,

but yet I'm actually adrift in the ocean,

a vagabond floating in the ocean,

and below my feet

I can feel the rumble of the iceberg

I can feel the change, the cry of the iceberg

as it's screeching

and as it's bouncing off the seabed,

as it's steering the ocean currents,

as it's beginning to move north

I can feel that sound coming up

through the bottoms of my feet

and telling me that this iceberg

is coming north That's my dream

So here I'm sitting in this lovely warm lab

and just outside is the environment

that Scott and Shackleton first faced

when they came here about 100 years ago

Unlike Scott and Shackleton, who viewed

the ice as this sort of static monster

that had to be crossed

to get to the South Pole,

we scientists now are able to

see the ice as a dynamic living entity

that is sort of producing change,

like the icebergs that I study

For me, it's been a wild ride

First of all, I found out that the iceberg

that I came down to study

not only was larger than the iceberg

that sank the Titanic,

it was not only larger than the Titanic itself,

but it was larger than the country

that built the Titanic

That's pretty big

This is B-15 So what we see here

is the white cliff It's about 150 feet tall,

so that means that there's over

This iceberg is so big

that the water that it contains

would run the flow of

the river Jordan for 1,000 years

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