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Updated: June 12, 2025
ECRASIA. Leave these obscure prehistoric abortions; and come back to your synthetic man and woman. PYGMALION. When I undertook the task of making synthetic men, I did not waste my time on protoplasm.
Your tastes and senses had overlaid the direct impulse of life in you. And because I cared only for our life, and went straight to it, and was bored by your calling my limbs fancy names and mapping me into mountains and valleys and all the rest of it, you called me an animal. Well, I am an animal, if you call a live man an animal. ECRASIA. You need not explain. You refused to be refined.
Why were these synthetic plasms, as they called them, no use? ECRASIA. We are waiting for you to tell us. PYGMALION. Not bad for a baby, my pet. But dead and alive are very loose terms. You are not half as much alive as you will be in another month or so. What was wrong with the synthetic protoplasm was that it could not fix and conduct the Life Force.
ECRASIA. He has insulted us! outraged us! profaned his art! You know how much we hoped from the twelve busts he placed in the temple to be unveiled today. Well, go in and look at them. ACIS. I am no great judge of sculpture. Art is not my line. What is wrong with the busts? ECRASIA. Wrong with them!
On the contrary, I bring with me such a work of art as you have never seen, and an artist who has surpassed both you and me further than we have surpassed all our competitors. ECRASIA. Impossible. The greatest things in art can never be surpassed. ARJILLAX. Who is this paragon whom you declare greater than I? MARTELLUS. I declare him greater than myself, Arjillax.
THE HE-ANCIENT. Yet I have seen you walking over the mountains alone. Have you not found your best friend in yourself? ACIS. What are you driving at, old one? What does all this lead to? THE HE-ANCIENT. It leads, young man, to the truth that you can create nothing but yourself. Ecrasia: you are clever. Do you understand it? I don't.
THE NEWLY BORN. Why did you not make a woman instead of a man? She would have known how to behave herself. MARTELLUS. Why did you not make a man and a woman? Their children would have been interesting. PYGMALION. I intended to make a woman; but after my experience with the man it was out of the question. ECRASIA. Pray why?
But there is something the matter with me. I want to lie down. I cannot keep my eyes open. ECRASIA. You are falling asleep. You will wake up again. THE NEWLY BORN. Ai! oi! ai! Dont. ECRASIA. Come, Arjillax: you at least are still an artist. I adore you. ARJILLAX. Do you? Unfortunately for you, I am not still a child. I have grown out of cuddling. I can only appreciate your figure.
ECRASIA. Well, have you ever hesitated to criticize our best flute players, and to declare whether their music is good or bad? Pray have I not the same right to criticize your busts, though I cannot make images anymore than you can play?
For whilst we are tied to this tyrannous body we are subject to its death, and our destiny is not achieved. THE NEWLY BORN. What is your destiny? THE HE-ANCIENT. To be immortal. THE SHE-ANCIENT. The day will come when there will be no people, only thought. THE HE-ANCIENT. And that will be life eternal. ECRASIA. I trust I shall meet my fatal accident before that day dawns.
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