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(A) TIME: 0700
MATRE'D
I have things to take care of myself.
CYNDI
Please don't leave.
MATRE'D
Something you want?
CYNDI
Yes.
MATRE'D
Name it, I'll see what I can do.
CYNDI
I have to know more first. This is
so sudden.
MATRE'D
What is?
CYNDI
Do you realize how rare an insight that
is, to judge direction by the river?
MATRE'D
Sailing is my hobby. Navigation has been
second-nature so long, I haven't
really thought about it. Most people
do judge "up" by the map, though.
CYNDI
The artificial map, the man-made map,
while the map of Mother Nature is forgotten.
MATRE'D
The world we live in, I guess.
CYNDI
What do you think of that world, Mr. . . .?
MATRE'D
Watson. How do you mean?
CYNDI
Is it moral, calling "down the valley"
upriver?
MATRE'D
I haven't thought of it as a matter of
right and wrong, really.
CYNDI
In your heart-of-hearts, it doesn't
disturb you, to hear people speak
such ignorance?
MATRE'D
Oh, I suppose I get a chuckle out of
it now and then. Like people saying
"irregardless." It's nonsense but
it's become habitual.
CYNDI
Exactly: we have the habits of
falsehood, everywhere you look.
MATRE'D
This is really an important matter to you, I
take it.
CYNDI
If we ignore the primitive balance of
nature, we are doomed. Yes, I think
that is an important matter.
MATRE'D
I confess I don't know much about your
religion, I believe it's a religion, but
I take it you're a back-to-nature group,
concerned with the environment and all
that . . .?
CYNDI
The Universal Church of Primitive Balance.
We are concerned with everything the name implies.
MATRE'D
I can sympathize with your concern for nature.
On the other hand, there's not a lot you can do
about the way things on. Corporations rule the
roost.
CYNDI
I'm sorry to hear you say that. I had an
impulsive reaction a moment ago, quite
contrary to my first impression of you.
At first I saw you as a military man. More
correctly, a military mind. The Matre'd,
the Official Host, the Man in Charge, the
Captain of the Lodge. But then when
you understood, as a matter of course, a
matter of such importance, that direction
depends on the river, not on the map -- the
map is not the territory, as they say --
I had a glandular impulse, I felt the
chemistry of insight, that you truly belonged
in our church, you were one of us-- . . .
MATRE'D
Wait a minute, you're going too fast for me.
CYNDI
I speak of love, Mr. Watson. The spiritual
love sharee by kindred minds. But perhaps I
was wrong.
MATRE'D
Frankly, I think so.
CYNDI
Which saddens me. You like to sail? Well, we've
got a yacht we harbor in Southern California,
and it could use a permanent captain. I was
beginning to think you were the perfect man for
the job.
MATRE'D
I love my job right here.
CYNDI
I suppose you do.
MATRE'D
Well, I'm sorry to have disappointed you.
CYNDI
It's very sad, that you have such wisdom
but are afraid to act on it.
MATRE'D
I have guests to look after -- which I'd better get
to. So if you'll excuse me . . .
CYNDI
I'll always remember the possibility of
you. I haven't had such a strong glandular
response in months. For a moment, you seemed
to be in perfect primitive balance.
MATRE'D
I don't know what to tell you . . .
He moves off, to area . /ex7/
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