Called "Song of Shaking."
There'll be about two more after this.
Don Juan talks to Carlos about going out and meeting an animal
and having the animal talk to him
and it relates in some very hilarious episodes
how he went about trapping, for instance,
a magical deer, which he realized
at one point, when he was in Mexico, was stalking him.
And it made him aware of his presence
by whistling, a weird, very strange kind of whistle.
And Don Juan knew it wasn't a real ordinary animal
because no animal had a whistle like that.
So Don Juan said, all right, what shall I do?
How shall I track this magical creature?
And he worked out all of the alternatives.
What would a man do who was just not a hunter, not a warrior
but was just a man wandering in the woods?
And he would hide, he would run away.
What would a warrior do if he was prepared for it?
He would arm himself.
He would duck behind the closest cover, which he would already
be aware of.
Worked through all the various kinds
of things that could be done and decided,
or had decided beforehand, that he wouldn't
do any of those things.
Because all of those things were anticipatable
and no magical being is going to be attracted
by anything trapped in routine.
So what he did was stood on his head
and began to cry and whistle, himself, he tells Carlos.
And then lo and behold, before long, the magical deer
came up behind him and was nuzzling on his ear and saying,
why are you so sad?
And don't be sad, and things.
And Carlos says, wait a minute, Don Juan,
you mean this deer talks to you?
It actually talks to you?
And he said, of course.
And when Carlos was fascinated, he was, at the same time,
incredulous and fascinated.
He didn't believe him for a minute
but he wanted to know what he said anyway.
Real toads and imaginary gardens.
And so Don Juan related the conversation
in a very stupid way which was how are you today Don Juan?
Fine, thanks.
How are you?
It's good to see you.
This kind of banal things.
And finally, Carlos shook his head and he says,
it was certainly a dumb conversation, Don Juan.
And Don Juan says, well, what do you expect?
After all, I'm only an Indian.
[GIGGLING]
Later, Carlos talks with an animal, the coyote.
And comes back just blithering about his experience.
And Don Juan has an enormous amount
of fun poking at him as he says, but Don Juan--
But the kind of talking that they're
seemed to be talking about in there I think
is a fairly common, quite common phenomenon.
I'm going to assume so anyway.
"Today, out in the woods, an old tree found me.
It said, I am you.
And a chorus of whispers blew by where I shook.
I am you, it said, with no words.
No words.
Big tree, dead, huge memory of itself,
collapsing, to feed the green shoots ringing its base.
And the babble of whispers blew by where I listened.
Their small voices hard to hear.
We, they seemed to say.
We are becoming you.
And the shaking stopped."