I do think he has a wonderful English. I've had lots of opportunities in my life to appreciate the English of non-native speakers who are weirdly expressive in ways that list toward their original language and yet are also kind of freely particular. You get a kind of pass when you don't grow up with a language's decorum …
"He prizes illogic and vision and messiness in a reality that is in thrall to conformity." Does this not also describe L.A.? It's hard to imagine Herzog anywhere else. Imagine him in San Francisco or Seattle, speaking of corners being planed off. L.A. seems much stranger and wilder a conception and a reality.
You have a point! My brother lives outside LA, in an aging glassy house clinging to a hillside where there are coyotes and peacocks picking around the lavish weeds...
Brilliant review of a virtually ungraspable subject.
I do think he has a wonderful English. I've had lots of opportunities in my life to appreciate the English of non-native speakers who are weirdly expressive in ways that list toward their original language and yet are also kind of freely particular. You get a kind of pass when you don't grow up with a language's decorum …
"He prizes illogic and vision and messiness in a reality that is in thrall to conformity." Does this not also describe L.A.? It's hard to imagine Herzog anywhere else. Imagine him in San Francisco or Seattle, speaking of corners being planed off. L.A. seems much stranger and wilder a conception and a reality.
You have a point! My brother lives outside LA, in an aging glassy house clinging to a hillside where there are coyotes and peacocks picking around the lavish weeds...