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--that often when a sewage pipe is laid, it may develop a leak--
The leak may seep through its soft surroundings
And create a vast pool of quicksand.

INDIO

Look at this, father. You thought it was only the Dutch? Here's an American newspaper. "Heavy Russian Columns Move West in Iran." They just finished cheering the Red Army, and they're already telling the Americans the Red Army is going to march all over Asia.

MOKSA

Cannot change.

INDIO

Peace and cooperation. Oil and rubber they mean! That's why they dropped atomic bombs on Japan!

MOKSA

Servus Neriana said we cannot change the world.

INDIO

Atomic bombs! Do you hear, old man? They burned them alive--everyone! Now the Dutch can slaughter more of us than the Japanese ever did!

MOKSA

Burumba could not change, Chuana.

INDIO

Don't you care what's happening any more? Ever since that child died you've been talking strange.

MOKSA

Chuana! Why have you killed us?

INDIO

It's that stinking body that makes you sick!