Mondo Cane

"Man is the only living being that comes into the world crying. Obstetricians say that crying helps breathing, it gets the lungs started. But we have a different opinion; we think that babies express their disappointments from having landed on this dog’s world. If it’s a boy, and handsome he may end up in a mess like Rossano Brazzi when he enters an American store to buy a shirt. But if it’s a girl, she may happen to be locked up until she gains those 120 kilos that, in her country, are barely sufficient to help her find a husband. But if she wants to marry a man from our areas, she needs to get back in shape by means of those tortures that lead the famous Lithuanian ethnologist Maria Elisabeta Kunkala to say: 'Holy knife, turn my heart to rust and make me die. God joined my hands and before they belong to another, with my very hands, I will stab my heart.'"