:A0500 (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 Continue