（外文电子版资料）Orson Scott Card - America.pdf

file:///C|/Documents and Settings/hasi•i/Dokumenty/Mar•an/knihy/700 SciFi,...tasy, and Classic eBooks/Card, Orson Scott/Card, Orson Scott - America.txt AMERICA By Orson Scott Card The difference between Latin America and North Americas United States has always been vast; the first being in virtual colonial aspect to the Empire of the Dollar. Now beyond the border between Mexico and the U.S.A. there lives another race, that of the native Americans miscalled Indians. The majority of the inhabitants of those countries are among the dispossessed of the world. This may change; indeed, as history always calls the tune, no matter how long or in what fashion it takes, it will change. Sam Monson and Anamari Boagente had two encounters in their lives, forty years apart. The first encounter lasted for several weeks in the high Amazon jungle, the village of Agualinda. The second was for only an hour near the ruins of the Glen Canyon Dam, on the border between Navaho country and the State of Deseret. When they met the first time, Sam was a scrawny teenager from Utah and Anamari was a middle-aged spinster Indian from Brazil. When they met the second time, he was governor of Deseret, the last European state in America, and she was, to some peoples way of thinking, the mother of God. It never occurred to anyone that they had ever met before, except me. I saw it plain as day, and pestered Sam until he told me the whole story. Now Sam is dead and shes long gone, and Im the only one who knows the truth. I thought for a long time that Id take this story untold to my grave, but I see now that I cant do that. The way I see it, I wont be allowed to die until I write this down. All my real work was done long since, so why else am I alive? I figure the land has kept me breathing so I can tell the story of its victory, and it has kept you alive so you can hear it. Gods are like that. It isnt enough for them to run everything. They want to be famous, too. Agualinda, A