Eisenstein in Guanajuato Page #10

I cannot.

Cannot what?

Why not?

Because I have argued with myself repeatedly

that this cannot be the way.

I have reached my accustomed point,

and this is where I stop.

It used to be where you may have stopped.

It isn't any longer.

This is where I get off the train.

(CHUCKLES) Sorry, no station.

Well, then I will have to jump.

(CHUCKLES)

Jumping off a moving train

could be dangerous.

And your prick tells you

you have a first-class ticket

to continue the journey.

My prick is a stowaway,

an even sadder clown than me.

He wears a sad clown's helmet.

He's a wiser clown than you.

Follow where he leads.

And if you won't lead,

let me.

I am the guard.

I will be at the back of the train.

(DISTANT THUNDER RUMBLES)

(WHIMPERING)

(GRUNTS) It hurts, it stings!

I'm going to vomit!

- Shh, shh, shh.

- (GROANS)

That's what every virgin must say.

(CHUCKLES)

That's what the virginal New World said.

- I'm bleeding.

- So you are.

Every virgin is supposed to bleed,

so you were perhaps telling me the truth.

- Don't worry.

- (GRUNTS)

Small, broken, injured capillaries

in the sensitive anal interior sphincter.

Recovery almost immediate.

- Bleeding makes me vulnerable.

- It does.

But you have no reason to feel concerned.

Unless you are a haemophiliac. (CHUCKLES)

You are not a member

of the Russian royal family,

are you?

Are you a Romanov?

Europe gave Mxico many things.

And perhaps Mxico

gave only one thing back,

syphilis.

It was known for a time

as the "Mexican disease."

Then as the "Spanish disease."

The Spanish gave it to Italians

in southern Italy.

The French army of Francis I

caught it from the Italians.

Then it was the "French Disease."

The French soldiers took it back to France.

And then it was everybody's. (CHUCKLES)

The Mexicans had a natural immunity?

Is that really true?

The Old World, the New World.

You are the Old World. I am the New World.

(CHUCKLES)

But we have it all the wrong way round.

Mxico,

pre-Columbian Middle America,

is the Old World.

Where you come from is the New World.

And you tell me all these things

while your prick is in my arse?

Could be the reason.

Could be an excuse.

Could be a justification

to remind you about subjugation.

But it could be none of those things at all.

And it isn't.

And you are not entirely unwilling.

(CHUCKLES)

Curiously, neither were the Aztecs.

The European invasion had been prophesied.

They were God-fearing, superstitious people.

They did not resist.

The new New World should learn from the old.

They say all Americans, north and south,

originally came across

the Bering Straits to Alaska

and then all the way down

to Tierra del Fuego.

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