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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!