Post-Election Thoughts

. . . America is really the property of the world, and not only of the Americans, who, among other things, have the habit of diluting the wine of their mythical ideas with the water of the American Way of Life. America was something dreamed by philosophers, vagabonds, and the wretched of the earth way before it was discovered by Spanish Ships and popluated by colonies from all over the world. The Americans have only rented it temporarily. If they don't behave well, if the mythical level is lowered, if their movies don't work any more and history takes on an ordinary day-to-day quality, then we can always evict them. Or discover another America . . .

-- Sergio Leone, American Film, June 1984, p. 23