Society & Culture
Portions of this episode are presented in Korean with no accompanying English translation. Produced by Elise Byun and The Champagne's Electric. Chicago, MMXVIII --- LOUISE - Kangaroo. COLONEL WEBER - What? LOUISE - In 1770, Captain James Cook's ship ran aground on the coast of Australia. He led a party into the country and met the aboriginal people. One of his sailors pointed to the animals that hopped around with their young in pouches, and asked what they were called. The aborigine replied "Kanguru." COLONEL WEBER - What's your point? LOUISE - It wasn't until later that they learned "Kanguru" means "I don't understand." **** IAN - Is that true? The kangaroo story? LOUISE - No. But it made my point. - Excerpt from "Arrival", screenplay by Eric Heisserer "The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world." - Excerpt from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), Ludwig Wittgenstein