Maya - Excerpt

Her face is at the window.  She withdraws her head.  It is the same movement which began the previous scene.  Each scene is thus a palimpsest.  This cannot be emphasized too much.  The whit plumeria glow in this light.  The camera moves past them, out the window.  The outer world in visible below.  It consists of green jungle.  There are low hills on all sides.  Within view is a large, cross-shaped building.  This appears to be a church.  One side rises into twin towers, or steepless.  We are some distance above the ground, perhaps at the second floor of a hotel.  The camera drops.  Its movements must be fluid.  It descends through the trees.  It descends through giant ceibas, or the yax-xheel-cab,known as the first tree of the world.  It descends through red zapotes.  It descends through red bullet trees.  Other trees will be examined later.  Closer to the ground, as we move forward, are the black laurel and the white Callisi repens.  The camera fluidly conrinues past the ix-batun, the chimchin-chay--it can be boiled, the eaten like cabbage--and the jicama cimarrona, which is eaten only in times of famine.  Everywhere are the white plumerias.  All throw their shadows directly at the camera: