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It was full of extravagant praises of my beauty, mingled with passionate reproaches of my coldness and cruelty. "When he had finished he rose up, and, like a raging bull that cannot stand still, wandered off into the woods. Acis and I thought no more of him, till on a sudden he came to a spot which gave him a view of us as we sat.
Thither one day the huge Cyclops ascended, and sat down while his flocks spread themselves around. Laying down his staff, which would have served for a mast to hold a vessel's sail, and taking his instrument compacted of numerous pipes, he made the hills and the waters echo the music of his song. I lay hid under a rock by the side of my beloved Acis, and listened to the distant strain.
There are two of Pygmalion's pupils at the laboratory who helped him to manufacture the bones and tissues and all the rest of it. They can turn out a couple of new automatons; and you can model them as ancients if this venerable pair will sit for you. No more automata. They are too disgusting. Poor old Pyg! ECRASIA. Only fancy, Acis!
They would bore me; and they would bore you if you had any sense. Go in and look at my busts. ECRASIA. Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. Scorn! That is what I feel for your revolting busts. ARJILLAX. Fool: the busts are only the beginning of a mighty design. Listen. ACIS. Go ahead, old sport. We are listening. Martellus stretches himself on the sward beside the altar.
Thither one day the huge Cyclops ascended, and sat down while his flocks spread themselves around. Laying down his staff which would have served for a mast to hold a vessel's sail, and taking his instrument, compacted of numerous pipes, he made the hills and the waters echo the music of his song. I lay hid under a rock, by the side of my beloved Acis, and listened to the distant strain.
'I see you, he exclaimed, 'and I will make this the last of your love-meetings. His voice was a roar such as an angry Cyclops alone could utter. Aetna trembled at the sound. I, overcome with terror, plunged into the water. Acis turned and fled, crying, 'Save me, Galatea, save me, my parents! The Cyclops pursued him, and tearing a rock from the side of the mountain hurled it at him.
You dont seem to understand, any of you, what an enormous triumph it was to produce consciousness at all. ACIS. Cut the cackle; and come to the synthetic couple. SEVERAL YOUTHS AND MAIDENS. Yes, yes. No more talking. Let us have them. Dry up, Pyg; and fetch them along. Come on: out with them! The synthetic couple. Will you please whistle for them? They respond to the stimulus of a whistle.
Though only a corner of it touched him, it overwhelmed him. "All that fate left in my power I did for Acis. I endowed him with the honors of his grandfather, the river-god. The purple blood flowed out from under the rock, but by degrees grew paler and looked like the stream of a river rendered turbid by rains, and in time it became clear.
'I never sit thus, says Sophia, 'but I think of the two lovers, so sweetly described by Mr Gay, who were struck dead in each other's arms. There is something so pathetic in the description, that I have read it an hundred times with new rapture. 'In my opinion, cried my son, 'the finest strokes in that description are much below those in the Acis and Galatea of Ovid.
It was like a wooden magnet or a lightning conductor made of silk: it would not take the current. ACIS. Nobody but a fool would make a wooden magnet, and expect it to attract anything. PYGMALION. He might if he were so ignorant as not to be able to distinguish between wood and soft iron.
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