Herzog's Ecstatic Truth

Herzog is a sentimentalist of darkness. He's really into the small print of the universe. The deep sea where fish are devouring one another constantly. When you see it, it kind of overwhelms the large print and you realize that there's a side to nature that's quite scary. Well, fear has its ecstasy as well as joy. Correct. And he's never forgotten the very strange paradoxical fact that meaninglessness is so full when you encounter it head on. But meaninglessness fills you with a sense of meaning somehow. Darkness is not simply a negative quality absence of something; it can be a positive quality. It can be a solid presence. Right. We talked

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