(Projector whirring.  Film begins.)In profile, Grégoire and Safara hand-in-hand, heads just above water, feet planted open, as in an Egyptian wall-painting.  Water ripples over them.  Trade routes project on their bodies.  The lines begin to oscillate and move whip-like in the water.  Vibrations narrow-as though the lines of trade were stretching taut as harp strings.  Sounds of plucked catgut trembling.   (Film ends.)



Christy Sheffield Sanford, Copyright © 1996.