Barbara Minerva (Angelina Jolie) talking to Peter Tomsen (Daniel Day Lewis) and Ed McWilliams (Jack Lemmon) in Scorcese's "Wonder Woman"...

Peter Tomsen: ..".. Massoud.. I think Massoud should lead the Afghani Rebel Commanders in a take-over of Afghanistan .. in place of the crumbling provincial interim government which is presently trying to maintain its foothold in Afganistan.. I believe in a delocalized Afghanistan.. a tribal, delocalized Afganistan..."

Ed McWilliams: ..".. Peter.. I will always say you're a better man for the U.S. liason to Afghani affairs than yours truly, Ed McWilliams.. I'm just.. see.. Afghani self-sufficiency in independent Afghani self-governance has always been an unhealthy obsession with me.. Pakistan is always.. I've found Pakistan to be rather a pesky country.. Pakistan always wants to get its claws in Afghani self-governing affairs.. the ISI.. all that nonsense with the ISI.. I've never been a fan if Pakistan's designs for Afghanistan.. in any designs from Pakistan against Afghanistan at all..."

Peter Tomsen: ..".. Najibullah.."

Ed McWilliams:...".. yes.. Najibullah.."

Barbara Minerva: ..- murmuring in a low, mystical voice - ..".. najibullah.. najibullah.. he has read Marx's "Das Capital" .. in a French translation.. in a French translation... he has been aiming to read Das Kapital in the original German.. he was reading Marx's "Grundrisse" but had to put it town.. but found it fascinating how similar in linguistic style "Grundriss" was to mediaeval alchemical texts.. but no.. Communism is a part of the past of Afghanistan.. or in the far, far tomorrows of its future.."

Ed McWilliams: ..".. Communism.. you see a future for Communism in Afghanistan.. Barbara.. I never know what's going to come out of your mouth next.. Barbara.. Minerva..."

Peter Tomsen: ..."... Russia under Communism had many delocalized, grass-roots qualities.. Russia was always, always in a state of poverty under Communism.. but within these pockets of poverty.. their was a real working class-intelligentsia and convivial Russian culture engendered which.. perhaps you see great poverty in Afghanistan's future.. Barbara.. and you would finally arrange a cultural annexation of Afghanistan to Russia.. I'm reading some Russian novels presently in the original Russian.. "

Barbara Minerva: ..".. I listen to Echo radio religiously.."

Peter Tomsen: .."...perhaps my premise of a Zahir Shah royal family lineague ruling Afghanistan is not so far from your vision of a rather Russian Afghanistan.. Barbara Minerva.."...

.. scene for Scorcese's "Wonder Woman" .. written by Scott Snyder-2...


.. medusa...