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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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