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Updated: July 14, 2025
Will you be talked out of your inspiration by Ecrasia and the fools who imagine she speaks with authority? Let us have them all set up beside mine in the theatre. I have opened the way for you; and you see I am none the worse. MARTELLUS. Impossible. ALL. Smashed! ARJILLAX. Who smashed them? MARTELLUS. I did. That is why I laughed at you just now. ARJILLAX. But why?
In the end the intellectual conscience that tore you away from the fleeting in art to the eternal must tear you away from art altogether, because art is false and life alone is true. As I have broken my idols, and cast away my chisel and modelling tools, so will you too break these busts of yours. ARJILLAX. Never. MARTELLUS. Wait, my friend. I do not come empty-handed today, as you imagined.
I had as much right to kill him as he had to make me. And how was I to know that a little thing like that would kill him? I shouldn't die if he cut off my arm or leg. ECRASIA. What nonsense! MARTELLUS. It may not be nonsense. I daresay if you cut off her leg she would grow another, like the lobsters and the little lizards. THE HE-ANCIENT. Did this dead boy make these two things?
MARTELLUS. She has bitten a piece out of his hand nearly as large as a finger nail: enough to kill ten men. There is no pulse, no breath. ECRASIA. But his thumb is clinched. MARTELLUS. No: it has just straightened out. See! He has gone. Poor Pygmalion! STREPHON. Hush, dear: thats childish. What a loss to Science! ARJILLAX. Who cares about Science? Serve him right for making that pair of horrors!
THE NEWLY BORN. We loathe them. ECRASIA. They are noisome. ACIS. I don't want to be hard on the poor devils; but they are making me feel uneasy in my inside. I never had such a sensation before. MARTELLUS. I took a lot of trouble with them. But as far as I am concerned, destroy them by all means. I loathed them from the beginning. ALL. Yes, yes: we all loathe them. Let us calcine them.
My girl went off this morning. She hadnt slept for weeks. And she found mathematics more interesting than me. MARTELLUS. There is a prehistoric saying that has come down to us from a famous woman teacher. She said: 'Leave women; and study mathematics. It is the only remaining fragment of a lost scripture called The Confessions of St Augustin, the English Opium Eater.
You are getting on very nicely, my child. MARTELLUS. Come! what is the truth that was hidden in the rag doll? THE HE-ANCIENT. Well, consider why you are not content with the rag doll, and must have something more closely resembling a real living creature. As you grow up you make images and paint pictures. Those of you who cannot do that make stories about imaginary dolls.
I am proud of you. I love you. MARTELLUS. We must send out a message for an ancient. ACIS. Need we bother an ancient about such a trifle? It will take less than half a second to reduce our poor Pygmalion to a pinch of dust. Why not calcine the two along with him? MARTELLUS. No: the two automata are trifles; but the use of our powers of destruction is never a trifle.
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?
You are a thanking little animal, a blaming little animal, a ACIS. A gushing little animal. ARJILLAX. And, as she thinks, an artistic little animal. If your Automata had been properly animated, Martellus, they would have been more successful. THE SHE-ANCIENT. That is where you are wrong, my child. If those two loathsome things had been rag dolls, they would have been amusing and lovable.
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