'The Book of Embraces'
The preacher Miguel Brun told me that a few years ago he had
visited the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco. He was part of
an evangelizing mission. The missionaries visited a chief who
was considered very wise. The chief, a quiet, fat man, listened
without blinking to the religious propaganda that they read
to him in his own language. When they finished, the missionaries
awaited a reaction.
The chief took his time, then said:
"That scratches. It scratches hard and it scratches very well."
And then he added:
"But it scratches where there isn't any itch."
The Book of Embraces, E. Galeano, W. W. Norton Co. N.Y., London, 1989 (p. 30)