καθώς ο Θωμάς περιμένει

- What's wrong with the world?
- We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley's dog made 12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.

- Can you tell me an odd thing that happened in an odd place? Any thoughts?
- A Japanese freighter had been torpedoed during WWII and it's at the bottom of Tokyo Harbor with a large hole in her hull. A team of engineers was called together to solve the problem of raising the wounded vessel to the surface. One of the engineers tackling this puzzle said he remembered seeing a Donald Duck cartoon when he was a boy where there was a boat at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its hull, and they injected it with ping-pong balls and it floated up. The skeptical group laughed but one of the experts was willing to give it a try.

Of course, where in the world would you find twenty million ping-pong balls but in Tokyo?.. It turned out to be the perfect solution. The balls were injected into the hull and it floated to the surface, the engineer was altered. Moral- solutions to problems are always found at an entirely different level; also, believe in yourself in the face of impossible odds.

- What is a gentleman?
- A man who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

- What's scary to you?
- [...] Officers, in offices, being official. [...]


...είναι μόνο μερικά αποσπάσματα από την απολαυστική συνέντευξη του Tom Waits, τεκμήριο της ιδιοφυίας και του σπάνιου ταμπεραμέντου ενός αυθεντικού γητευτή των ήχων και των λέξεων. Μπορείτε να διαβάσετε ολόκληρη τη συνομιλία, κάνοντας κλικ εδώ.

As Tom Waits...