guy who should ever have made the breakthrough in communication with mosquitoes in fact makes it things get confusing when a tribe of scientists composed of white men and women the same race is our protagonist although he's extremely distrustful of them venture through the jungle in search of communicating and studying the local tribe the la candons and like recording their music and so on and gradually in total disbelief at first but then through a violent demonstration they learn about what uh wise owl has been up to the man can talk to mosquitoes not only talk he can command them hilarity ensues just kidding it's dark as the mosquitoes have been breeding biological diseases to infect humans with some of them are known you know like there's malaria and all that but then there are some that humans don't know about which are much much worse turns out the assistant i think to the leader of the expedition is a young woman whom wise owl starts to fall for and this of course leads to a great deal of problems and none of this is just all in his head it's it's not that kind of story uh because obviously all of this sounds insane it's not not at all so imagine the solitary mystic journey of something like the circular ruins by borges but then add a kind of alcoholic deeply wounded cynical nihilistic protagonist and then a kind of creasing edgar allen poe or lovecraft vibe or dostoevsky's underground man all set in a south american jungle the horrible jungle this was published in NUMBER_TOKEN originally there's a passage in this book that that anticipates the words of werner herzog while filming fitzgeraldo you know while they're trying to pull the ship over the mountain right with klaus kinski and all that and people died on that set one guy got bit by a snake had to chase off his foot this logger who was who was with the production crew or something there's this clip that i've linked to below it's great it's it's a kind of behind-the-scenes documentary of him during the filming the trees here are in misery and the birds are in misery it's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape and whoever goes too deep into this has his share of that curse it's a land that god if he exists has created an anger he's so quotable man i like him much more than i like his films this is actually from the uh the finished uh book because the version in here is different but uh he writes thus the jungle the terrible devastating impulsive jungle is like man's life for years it patiently nurses the majesty of its trees and alongside that majesty the very source of its own destruction and so comes a day on which all that majesty falls back down to the earth and returns to dust and ash and not by chance but from that very devastating seed of destruction that majesty created by the jungle itself so is man so was i like the jungle i destroyed my majesty i with which the very hands with which i am writing these words cast my monumental dreams to the ground that's what i realized sitting beside the white-faced woman but now i understand it anew it is no coincidence i
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