GRACIAS
Yes, a Latin American girl -- as you'd call me -- is writing you an e-mail.
First I wanted to thank you for being such an inspiration for many people all around the world.
As a reader and a writer, "The X-Files" means so much to me beacuse I understand it as a story. For me watching the show was (and still is) like reading the most delicious book.
It's a pleasure.
You wouldn't believe it, but I first watched "The X-Files" at the age of four or five. Actually I don't remember because I was too little.
Once a week, I went to my parents' bedroom because I knew that THAT day, late at night, a really frightening and mysterious show was on.
It caught my attention. Every time.
It's funny how things changed since I started to grow up.
Always with a book in my head, a pen in my hand, and a piece of paper.
But the images, that shocking images of "The X-Files" wandered in my mind for years. Always having something more to say every time I heard Mulder and Scully having an argument or falling in love.
Philosophy and human nature, it was all there.
Now, I'm a more mature little girl.
An 18-year-old girl who thinks that maybe, if she believes in what is my passion, even if I'm not rewarded in life, with my letters people will think of what I have to say.
However, the aim of this e-mail is not to tell you about me.
Me is not the thing.
The real thing is how a written thing, a filmed image could change the way I now see life, as a woman, as an Argentinian, as an artist.
Be proud of what you have done, be proud of not really knowing what you have done (like Don Quixote).
And although my thoughts are in Spanish, and despite the fact my heart is a stubborn Argentinian heart, don't prejudge me.
Just imagine that a person, one person in the other side of the world, pays attention to the signs, the infinite signs that have built this world. The signs that reveal society and take them as tools in order to understand this crazy, surrealist world.
"The X-Files" is one of those "tools" -- a weapon, I would say, to keep on fighting for a better future.
Gracias,
Thank you,
Florencia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
First I wanted to thank you for being such an inspiration for many people all around the world.
As a reader and a writer, "The X-Files" means so much to me beacuse I understand it as a story. For me watching the show was (and still is) like reading the most delicious book.
It's a pleasure.
You wouldn't believe it, but I first watched "The X-Files" at the age of four or five. Actually I don't remember because I was too little.
Once a week, I went to my parents' bedroom because I knew that THAT day, late at night, a really frightening and mysterious show was on.
It caught my attention. Every time.
It's funny how things changed since I started to grow up.
Always with a book in my head, a pen in my hand, and a piece of paper.
But the images, that shocking images of "The X-Files" wandered in my mind for years. Always having something more to say every time I heard Mulder and Scully having an argument or falling in love.
Philosophy and human nature, it was all there.
Now, I'm a more mature little girl.
An 18-year-old girl who thinks that maybe, if she believes in what is my passion, even if I'm not rewarded in life, with my letters people will think of what I have to say.
However, the aim of this e-mail is not to tell you about me.
Me is not the thing.
The real thing is how a written thing, a filmed image could change the way I now see life, as a woman, as an Argentinian, as an artist.
Be proud of what you have done, be proud of not really knowing what you have done (like Don Quixote).
And although my thoughts are in Spanish, and despite the fact my heart is a stubborn Argentinian heart, don't prejudge me.
Just imagine that a person, one person in the other side of the world, pays attention to the signs, the infinite signs that have built this world. The signs that reveal society and take them as tools in order to understand this crazy, surrealist world.
"The X-Files" is one of those "tools" -- a weapon, I would say, to keep on fighting for a better future.
Gracias,
Thank you,
Florencia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
posted by Frank Spotnitz at 9:50 AM
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