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I agree.141 CONTINUED; 65 . 141 BOBBY I hope I'm seeing three dead guys and one of them Abd al- Salam. The Colonel starts briskly off to view Bashik's remains. Bobby follows, looking about as if for snipers. COLONEL I?╟╓m afraid we should have sent you to school in Cairo instead or at least to England. You've not only forgotten the language. You've also begun to lose the imagination, the poetry, of the Arab soul. 142 ANOTHER ANGLE 142 as they approach Bashik's body and stop to gaze at it. COLONEL That's not simply a ridiculous young boy lying there. That's four hundred years of your own history. That's the whole Yafatite Dynasty Of Khadra, dead in the dust. (a beat) "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away." (a beat) That's Shelley, of course. BOBBY It's creepy, is what. Shifting the pistol to his left hand, Bobby crouches beside Bashik, examining the still form for evidences of life. BOBBY (continuing) I don't think he's dead yet. The Colonel is not particularly perturbed. He looks about at the nearby form of Scott and then at Kelly, somewhat more distant. (CONTINUED)