Jean Gaumy “Winter. 1998. Moreno and I were there, silent on the rusted deck of the Spanish fishing boat ‘Rowanlea’, between two lifts of the trawl. Neither one of us was in great shape. I took one or two pho
(...) tos. He began to talk at length. As I did not speak a word of Portuguese, I recorded him. He trusted me. Without understanding everything, I knew what he was saying. His body, his face was speaking. A few weeks later, I read the translation. It was clear that we had understood one another without needing any words. In my book, Men at Sea (Harry N. Abrams, 2002), Moreno comments:
‘Sometimes we get mad, sometimes we feel bitter. We get this way because it’s like being in prison here…. We have to work together. And that’s why we have to bring the most we can to the others…let’s call it tenderness. I avoid being sad. You pass it on to others. You have to withstand, not give in. There, this is our life. It’s up to us to accept it. Whether we like it or not.’”
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