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          (A) /en10/ TIME CODE: 05:00

        CYNDI enters the area and begins to meditate. She is making a
        strange humming sound as she does this.

        WAITPERSON passes by.   /en8/ TIME CODE: 05:30

                        CYNDI (stopping him)
                Nature has lost its priority.

                        WAITPERSON
                Pardon me?

                        CYNDI
                It's so lovely here  Primitive, eternal, universal
                 . . . Nature in all her glory.

                        WAITPERSON
                Edgefield is unique, isn't it?

                        CYNDI
                I'm not talking about Edgefield.  I'm
                talking about Mother Nature, the Goddess
                of Primitive Balance.

                        WAITPERSON
                Oh.

                        CYNDI
                We render Nature powerless.

                        WAITPERSON
                How do we do that?

                        CYNDI
                An example: I was driving
                north from California, coming here for
                the wedding, taking backroads because
                the interstate is an obscenity, and I
                stop for gas and while at it I ask
                directions about some local roads, and
                what do you suppose happened?

                        WAITPERSON
                I have no idea.

                        CYNDI
                I'm lied to!  Not deliberately.  Through
                ignorance.  "Which way are you going?" I'm
                asked. I respond truthfully, because I'd been
                following the river, "I am going down the
                valley."  Is this not right, when I'm
                following the flow of the river?  I wasn't
                going upriver, I was going downriver, hence
                down the valley as well.  But I'm given
                directions to go SOUTH, not NORTH, because
                south points downward on the map, to go south is
                upriver but they call it down the valley,
                which is absurd, how can upriver be down the
                valley?  No one follows the river any more.
                We lose the primitive balance.

                        WAITPERSON
                Interesting.

                        CYNDI
                Why do you say "interesting" when you haven't an
                idea what I'm talking about?

                        WAITPERSON
                To tell you the truth, I've always thought
                of going north as "up" the valley myself.

                        CYNDI
                The state of the nation:  everyone is lost.
                Out of balance.

                        WAITPERSON
                It's just common usage, I think.  No big
                deal.

                        CYNDI
                No big deal!  To ignore the truth of the
                river is a very big deal!  When we lose
                communion with the natural balance of
                nature, we lose everything.

         The Matre'd enters the area.  /en7/  TIME CODE: 06:30

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