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I agree.128 CONTINUED - (2): 59- 128 BASHIK Old ocean floors. Salt leaching down from rocks in the mountains. Dry winds blowing past, sucking up the moisture. But an awful lot of it is caused by people. SCOTT That must have been a wild crowd that went through here. BASHIK First they come in and chop down the trees. Then they turn sheep loose on it, or camels, or goats. And then when everything?╟╓s washed away or blown away, if there?╟╓s a shred of vegetation left, someone pulls that up to kindle a fire. (still fazing off) That?╟╓s going to be my project. SCOTT What project? BASHIK Twenty-three hundred years ago, when Alexander was conquering the world, great armies camped in Khadra for months at a time ?╟÷ living off the land?╟╓. Where now there?╟╓s only miles and miles of nothing at all. (Indicates desert) Not even that much. He broods a bit, the others watching him and waiting. BASHIK (continuing) My Uncle Is a great believer In irrigation projects, which are well enough in the north, though frightfully expensive. But, in the south, I?╟╓m doing It ... without any Irrigation at all. SCOTT Doing what, Bashik? (CONTINUED)