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EXT - GROVE, PISON RIVER - EARLY MORNING FIRST LIGHT
ELLE rouses:
Takes palm fronds and half the berries from the perch:
Walks to the river shore: On the far side [1 mi across] is the rough side lip of a gigantic meteoritic impact crater: [miles across miles along]
Washes the berries and eats, looking across:
Looks-back at Adam still sleeping - and all around: Then walks across the
wide shallow river.
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| 19-2 |
EXT - LATER - SUN-UP
PAN TO JOIN
ELLE, wearing frond-slippers, washes berries in a frond-plate at the SHORE.
ADAM
(approaches carrying CAT)
Mommy, the cat likes me.
ELLE
Speak to the cat: Tell it the truth: You are the master.
ADAM
(to cat)
You are one cat on this planet Earth, in the cosmos: Your place is
here.
ELLE
Adam: Come see the things I found at the river.
ADAM
(approaches)
ELLE
(resumes)
This is oil-sludge: We may use it for fires, instead of dry twigs and
leaves.
ADAM
What is oil-sludge?
(puts cat down)
ELLE
Wash your hands in the water, and have some berries. |
Adam rubs his hands in the water to wash.
Elle gives him a frond-plate of berries: He eats while:
Elle demonstrates: oil-sludge floats, clay fashions:
ELLE
This oil-sludge is a blend of deep earth physics plus the slick gooey
remains of plants and animals that lived long ago - it makes a sludge underground
where the remains collected for thousands and millions of years - this
oil is not clean - it comes to the surface here because it floats on water:
(tosses a chunk on the river)
And the water comes here during rains: Oil finds a way to flow through
cracks in the ground, and seeps-up and oozes-out - and, it burns in fire.
ADAM
How do animal remains get underground?
ELLE
Everything the animal leaves, including its body when it no longer needs
to live here, gets covered with dust from the Earth, and from outer-space,
blown by the winds, until the layer of dust becomes dirt many feet deep,
in tens of thousands of years. Plants also help turn the dust into dirt
where all plants can then grow: And we'll plant a garden of bushes and
trees in this dirt, from the seeds we brought.
ADAM
Will we make oil, too?
(touches oil-sludge)
ELLE
Not for a thousand years, but we may find more things with oil: The seeds
of many grain-plants are rich in edible oil, clean for cooking into food.
ADAM
(sniffs finger)
This doesn't smell like food.
ELLE
Indeed: Cooking oil comes from fresh grain-foods - this sludge is too old,
and it came from already consumed foods. We'll collect this for our fires,
and keep it in pots made of clay: Would you like to help?
ADAM
Okay. But where do we get clay on this planet?
ELLE
The kind of clay we'll use here is heavy damp soil.
ADAM
Oh: Mr. Gabriel said soil is like our modeling clay.
ELLE
Yes, but we have lot's of clay-soil, here;
(scoops clay: works, shapes)
And we'll bake it hard and dry, after we fashion-out pots.
(BEE buzzes-by Adam "vv...vv")
(alights on flower-buds)
ADAM
What's that?!
(smiles delightedly)
ELLE
It's smaller than a bird.
ADAM
Let's call it a, vee: it sounds like a,
(enunciates)
"vvv".
ELLE
Where does the 'vee' go?
ADAM
(watches bee crawl buds)
It's stopping on the plants, and inspecting them: It likes the little
flower buds, too, before these open.
ELLE
It is a worker-insect:
(joins, watches)
A pollinator.
ADAM
What does work mean among insects? What work is pollinating?
ELLE
It means: It doesn't spoil the plants, but tends and promotes the growth,
fruiting, and seeding of the plants, by collecting the flower-pollen and
leaving tiny specks on other plants of the same species. It keeps most
of the pollen for its own food - flowering plants have much extra.
(appends)
We'll tend the plants we grow from the seeds we brought.
ADAM
Will we pollinate the flowers?
ELLE
We'll do much more: We'll water and feed the whole plants, and we'll let
the 'vee's pollinate all the flowers.
(new subject)
Now, would you like to help with the oil and pot-making?
ADAM
Yes.
ELLE
(gives him frond-slippers)
Put-on your shoes, and let's begin this day's work. |
Adam puts-on the frond-slippers. |
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| 19-6 |
SUCCESSIVE ACTIVITIES - LATE AFTERNOON HOUR
ANGLES: Elle and Adam make a large bed-platform-base and a fire-hearth, pouring
clay and pebble filling, smoothing it with fronds - and leave it to dry
some days.
Elle breaks rocks for knife-like tool. |
19-6 |
| 19-7 |
EXT - RIVER SIDE - LATE AFTERNOON, EARLY EVENING
ANGLES: ELLE and ADAM frolic-splash in the river: ad lib.
Until it's time for dinner:
ELLE
Now: Before our evening dinner, it's time for the special discovery:
Let's cross the river.
ADAM
Can I take the cat?
ELLE
Do you remember what I said?
ADAM
You said to not squeeze it.
ELLE
(purses a smile)
Yes. |
Adam retrieves the cat.
THEY WALK ACROSS THE SHALLOW RIVER TO THE FAR SIDE:
And beyond, until they come to:
ANGLE-FROM: STEAMY MIST, 100 paces down: LOOK UP the easy-shallow barren
METEORIC IMPACT CRATER SLOPE to:
Elle and Adam appear, and stop at the LIP, looking out: Adam lets the cat down, loose.
ANGLE: Elle, Adam, SURVEY:
Pointing-out the immense barren crater half-filled with steamy mist:
[4 mi across 15 mi along 100 feet deep, west deeper]
ADAM
Is this, the special discovery?
ELLE
Yes: See how far it is, across.
ADAM
But it's plain: There's nothing growing down there.
ELLE
This will be your garden: You can grow it.
ADAM
(surprised)
The whole garden?!
ELLE
Yes: With the seeds we brought, we can plant it - and we can divert some
of the river, to water it when the rains dry: This is all yours: You will
tend it - and later in the year, its harvest will feed us.
ADAM
(marvels the extent)
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