. >>> "after words" with eduardo galeano and john dinges continues. >> host: ayaan john dinges and i am talking with eduardo galeano and we are talking about his book, "mirrors." edgardo is particularly important in latin america because he has captured the long history of repression and exploitation immigration and conquests and done this and a number of books and that wasn't enough just to talk about latin america. he's now taken on the history of the world with his new book, "mirrors." i wanted, as we broke we were talking about your way of putting these stories together. one of the people i guess it was an interview that i read in which you were talking about your way of writing and you use the word [inaudible] rich is feeling thinking. >> guest: it's a language, a feeling, thinking of the language. a language able to express the mind and the heart. >> host: how do you collect your stories so that you actually have those vignettes of 30 or 40 lines? >> trying to unite the mind and the heart and the horrors and marvels of life because if i would be just a writer writing about repr