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Updated: May 26, 2025
I afterward heard this saying of his: 'To lie is to sleep, to sit is to dream, to stand is to think. My father caught the infection, and fell into meditation, but my mother roused them both thoroughly. Broodviol scowled at her savagely, and demanded what she required. Then I too learned for the first time the object of our journey. I was a prodigy that is to say, I was without sex.
And when this has been done, it is only the first stage of the journey; though many good men imagine it to be the whole journey.... As far as I can remember, that is what Broodviol said, but perhaps, as I was then a young and ignorant man, I may have left out words which would explain his meaning better." Maskull, who had listened attentively to all this, remained thoughtful at the end.
My parents were troubled over this, and wished to consult the wisest of men. "Old Broodviol smoothed his face, and said, 'This perhaps will not be so difficult. I will explain the marvel. Every man and woman among us is a walking murderer. If a male, he has struggled with and killed the female who was born in the same body with him if a female, she has killed the male.
In the evening of the same day we found Broodviol standing in a deep, miry pit in the forest, surrounded on all sides by trees three hundred feet high. He was a big gnarled, rugged, wrinkled, sturdy old man. His age at that time was a hundred and twenty of our years, or nearly six hundred of yours.
"I heard that shortly afterward Alppain came into that land for a few hours daily. Broodviol grew melancholy, and died. "His prophecy came true before we reached home, I knew the meaning of shame.
Maskull gave him a strange look. "How so?" "I don't speak from my own wisdom," said Polecrab, "for I have none; but I have just now recalled what Broodviol once told me, when I was a young man, and he was an old one.
"'That was spoken, not selfishly, but magnanimously. Therefore the male must have spoken it, and you need not trouble further. Before you arrive home, the child will be a boy. "My father walked away out of sight. My mother bent very low before Broodviol for about ten minutes, and he remained all that time looking kindly at her.
His eyes were almost too sombre and penetrating for a child's. "That one," said Polecrab, pinching the boy's ear, "may perhaps grow up to be a second Broodviol." "Who was that?" demanded the boy, bending his head forward to hear the answer. "A big, old man, of marvellous wisdom. He became wise by making up his mind never to ask questions, but to find things out for himself."
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