Scavengers

"Sadness of the earth", funereal lament, desolate song, irony and anger flow.
Writing holds fists clenched, rage. In a magnificent way. Launched phrases, like men to conquer the West - cavalcade of sentences, assertive, unstoppable - these men are about their business - massacre the American Indians - in consciousness which have no time to flush the doubt, remorse: morality. "Sadness of the earth" is a story and carrion scavengers, Universal History of the blood to the origin of "civilization", the universal history of history and rewrite history. At Wounded Knee, Indians are decimated. Four mountain guns Hotchkiss swing their shells on the tents and the plain of the fugitives. The bodies were thrown into a common grave. "One hundred. It's been a hundred corpses. One hundred and one hundred and two hundred and three. We piled eighty-four men, forty-four women and eighteen children. First we covered a row of old blankets and another row in the other direction;. and so it was on January 2, 1891. " The snow has covered world history of the massacre of the Innocents and Guernica. The snow has covered the bodies. Scavengers have only to pick up the relics of the Indians, they will trade. Buffalo Bill only has to pick up the last survivors, the last horse and the last bison, employed as crowd its very lucrative show - Wild West Show - creation and staging of an American myth of origins: cowboys and Indians. The massacre was renamed "battle" Wounded Knee ". America is born before your eyes, show business is born under your applause. Buffalo Bill is the iconic character," he who made the greatest hoax of all time . "The cavalcade phrases raises dust in the words of a familiar register, vulgar words, elders who say dirty existence of passwords like" vial "Buffalo Bill," engraved in our memories " before the snow falls on his memory. A toy-used vocables, which is reflected with restraint crumpled revolt of conscience. The style is impeccable, a false coldness. The sublime literature history, the double d a glance, a sensitivity. Writing takes fists clenched in rage. The book is wonderful.