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To start with...
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...the only way to get there
is through Afghanistan.
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Kafiristan? No, no, no.
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Two white men would be cut to pieces
five miles into the Khyber Pass.
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Just suppose we managed it.
Just suppose.
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And suppose we got across
the Afghan plains, then what?
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There's the Hindu Kush,
a frozen sea of peaks and glaciers.
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A party of geographers tried several
years ago and vanished into thin air.
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No white man has ever been there
and come out since Alexander.
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Alexander who?
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Alexander the Great, king of Greece.
300 years before Christ.
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lf a Greek can do it, we can do it.
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Right.
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l can only repeat,
you're a pair of lunatics!
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Would a pair of lunatics
draw up a contract like this?
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"This contract between us, pursuing
and witnesseth in the name of God.
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One: We will settle this together,
i.e., to be kings of Kafiristan.
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Two: We will not, while this
is being settled, look at liquor...
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...or any woman, so as to get mixed
up with one or the other harmful.
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Three: We act
with dignity and discretion.
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lf one is in trouble, the other stays
by him. Signed by us this day."
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There's no need for the last article,
but it's got a ring to it.
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Daniel.