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I am very subtle;and I have thought and thought and thought. Confucius congratulates him on having reached the first stage of maturity. What have you to do with one another now? Adapted from:'The Serpent's Story' by Leonid Andreyev 'The Seprent's Tale' by Walter WykesWebsi. Be it so. His meal cost him a day's glorious health-giving sport andan hour's amusing play with the fire. ADAM. For you werethe first children in the world, and filled us with such wonder anddelight as no couple can ever again feel while the world lasts. If I put off death until tomorrow, I shall never die. You know what I mean. Yes: you have to twirl a stick to feel your strength: you cannottaste life without making it bitter and boiling hot: you cannot loveLua until her face is painted, nor feel the natural warmth of her fleshuntil you have stuck a squirrel's fur on it. Your hood is most lovely. The voice in the garden is your own voice. Whatdo I care? CAIN. Come here. She takes a few uncertain steps, but quickly learns to walk, then the Ancient names her Amaryllis, as requested by the other children. ADAM. The discussion is interrupted by the arrival of the Domestic Minister, Mrs Lutestring to give her mandatory quarterly report. She asks if the child is ready to be born and Acis says the child is more than ready, that she has been shouting and kicking inside her egg and refuses to wait quietly. Ugh! Yes: that is splendid: that will bind the future. (The foreigners live no longer than the English, but they mature early.). EVE. Are you tempted, Adam? Yes. Butif you invented death, why do you blame me, who am a minister of death? If I bind the future Ibind my will. ADAM. You neither of you know anything about life. Burge-Lubin declines the offer. Hearken to me, old fool. Alone for ever. EVE. It is likely that he did not die as the world. Remonstrances ensue and the Ancient apologizes, saying that had he known there was a nursery here, he should have gone another way. Love may be too long a word for so short a thing soon. EVE. Yes: that must not be. CAIN. no adventures! This splendid life of yours does not last for a thousandyears; and I must last for a thousand years. Life is theloveliest of all the new words. [_She strokes it and pets the serpent_].Pretty thing! Yes, until you create another Adam. When there are new Adams and new Eves we shall live in a garden ofstrangers. I make no vows. The Emperor of Turania, calling himself Napoleon, impatient of ceremony, bursts into the courtyard of the Temple of the Oracle. What vow do youmake? I will not create anyEves, only Adams. What is the matterwith you? What is wicked? It has a queer smell. Her wheel, which she turns byhand, is a large disc of heavy wood, practically a flywheel. I will not have it. Am I not betterthan you? I have not told you the great secret. I dared everything. CAIN. THE SERPENT. He reveals that the drowned notables in the film clips at the Records Office are all the same person whose multiple demises had ended several significant careers. Why do you do it? Something has happened. It is especially. She agrees to let him stay and grasps his hands and looks at him. Yet I do not know how to prevent it. Do you think I never have thesethoughts: I! A path with stairs of rough-cut stone leads upward from the temple to the hill. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1928. EVE. Anybody couldbe the first man: it is as easy as to be the first cabbage. He is mine. But it does not grow longer for all its practice instreaming, because you have not willed it so. [4] Nevertheless, he uses both terms in Man and Superman which was written nine years before Bergson's work was published. Martellus laughs, but not in mockery; he says he, too, attempted such a project, but has smashed all his sculptures and thrown away his tools. If they are lazy and have a will towards death I cannot help it.I will live my thousand years: if they will not, let them die and bedamned. It nearly tore me asunder. She had a mighty will: shestrove and strove and willed and willed for more moons than there areleaves on all the trees of the garden. Child-eating! Sixteen Self Sketches: What is My Religious Faith, pp. DidI? Forsooth, when you have slain the boar at the riskof your life, you will throw her a morsel of it for her pains! Turned from the clay. You have made the beasts afraid of us; and the snake hasinvented poison to protect herself against you. he is coming. You callthat the nature of woman! ADAM. If only there may be an end some day, and yetno end! EVE [_throwing herself on the ground beside him, and grasping his knee_]You must be careful. Can you find aname for that knowledge? ADAM. You dare come hereboasting about that good-for-nothing Lua, the worst of daughters and theworst of wives! Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. He was not my keeper any more than I was his: why did he notkill me? Adam invents the word to-morrow. Asked why, he says life alone is true and meaningful and that marble remains marble, no matter how skilfully it is shaped. I will tell Eve the secret; and she will tell it to you. EVE. I will make other Adams, other Eves. He said that the Voice was the voice of the fire that cooked hisfood, and that the fire that could cook could also eat. Instead of breathing you sneeze, or coughup your insides, and wither and perish. I cleared away the thistles and briars. And at last I found a way of gatheringtogether a part of the life in my body--. [_He goes on digging withoutraising his head_]. Selfish, yes: a life in which no man is his brother's keeper,because his brother can keep himself. Zoo is the replacement. His question: "How am I to satisfy my genius for fighting until I die?" He says no and tries to hide his tears, which he attributes to hay fever. My sons and my son's sons are not all diggersand fighters. Dare it. I shall not make them. Find me one word for it all: you, who are so clever at words. time, Back to Methuselah and Saint Joan. I ate the fruits of theearth. What does he know of love? Back to Methuselah By the closing years of World War I, Shaw had long supported the idea that Ireland ought to achieve a kind of Home Rule, an arrangement that would grant Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales their own parliaments, but would also maintain a joint council to coordinate matters of mutual I fear you myself. EVE [_angrily to the snake_] This death that you have brought into thegarden is an evil thing. You are very subtle. I am the old serpent, older than Adam, older than Eve. One of them I will lead; and the other will be led by the man Ifear most and desire to fight and kill most. But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'[15]. I was troubled with the burdenof eternal being; but I was not confused in my mind. The diggers come: the fighters and killers come:they are both very dull; for they either complain to me of the lastharvest, or boast to me of the last fight; and one harvest is just likeanother, and the last fight only a repetition of the first. Let us listen to the snake. THE SERPENT. change is sure to happen. Everything must have been created out of nothing. ADAM. CAIN [_letting his spear fall into the crook of his shield arm, andtwirling his moustache_] There is something higher than man. EVE. They will not overrun the wholegarden for a long time: not until you have laid down your burden andgone to sleep for ever. It hurts. I followed your teaching. The other children are jubilant because defective children are painlessly destroyed. That is true. Away with you, naughty child; and do you,Adam, go on with your work and not waste your time listening to him. He has not noticedthe serpent on his left hand. The ox shall make it something noblerthan grass before it comes to me. The egg keeps shouting "I want to be born! They expound his philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Eden to 31,920 ce. And to fight. I have not lived as long as you; but I know all thereis to be known of the craft of digging. And each host shall tryto kill the other host. Oh! I have told Cain already that he is not aman and that Lua is not a woman: they are monsters. The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure. The first scene opens with England's president, Burge-Lubin (descendant and composite of the politicians seen in The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas) squabbling with a Barnabas descendantvia telephones equipped with televisionabout which of them should welcome a visiting American who has invented a method for breathing underwater. After the briefest sort of conversation, the pair leaves together, obviously intending to produce some long-lived children. Try a taste of fighting. all those multitudes of menfighting, fighting, killing, killing! Eat the dust. Do you never think ofthat? Moreover, he has recognized the person as the currently alive and active Archbishop of York. THE SERPENT. Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch by Bernard Shaw - Free Ebook Project Gutenberg 70,452 free eBooks 62 by Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch by Bernard Shaw Download This eBook Similar Books Readers also downloaded Bibliographic Record What are you, you poor slave of a painted face anda bundle of skunk's fur? There is somethingthat holds us together, something that has no word--. THE SERPENT. Oh! I do not want to kill women. She asks if he is a foreigner and he denies it and says he is a Briton who lives in the capital. Zozim catches up, recuses himself as overly mature, and asks to be replaced by someone younger. Of the coming true of your dreams and mine. You are more her slave than Adam's ox oryour own sheepdog. You can feel nothing but atorment, and believe nothing but a lie. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. The Garden of Eden. 7279, (Constable & Co., London, 1949. She is a better sort of woman to live with than you. CAIN. The brothers are disappointed but remain completely confident that the It was true: Isaw the fire consume the food on his altar. And I! Shaw, Bernard. Hush! It did; but I am not a child to be afraid of a Voice. Whatcertainty have you of your thousand years? who have the labor of the child-bearing: I! Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. That may come too. THE SERPENT. Then I gave up your old silly drudging ways, and lived as he hadlived, by the chase, by the killing, and by the fire. What more is there to tell? But they might not be quite the same. [_Shesits on the rock and pulls him down beside her, clasping him to her withher right arm_]. I can make better use of my time thanto play the husband to the clay beneath my feet. 1) Methuselah was of the godly line (Lu 3:27). Her concern is that the old man's tears are a sign that he is suffering from discouragement, a dire sickness contracted by short-livers when they talk to long-livers over sixty. Whose fault was it that I killed Abel? A few centuries later. EVE [_admiring it_] Oh! And I have to pretend to be surprised, delighted, interested;though the last child is like the first, and has said and done nothingthat did not delight Adam and me when you and Abel said it. Yes, because she looked at another man. Die. EVE. Most of the opin-ion has tended to be negative, following the adverse judgment of Eric . And as the man is nobler than the ox,I shall some day let my enemy eat the ox; and then I will slay and eathim. Will they learn all the ways of all the stars in theirlittle time? As Far as Thought Can Reach is in a time when short-lived people are a mere footnote in ancient history, and great longevity is the norm. ADAM. Burge-Lubin, realising that he, or anyone else, might turn out to be long-lived, counsels moderation. ADAM. Begone. THE SERPENT. If only the care of this terrible garden may pass onto some other gardener! Back to Methuselah Quotes Showing 1-7 of 7 "You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?" George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah tags: inspirational 3948 likes Like "You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah Youfight because you think that your fighting makes her admire and desireyou. Yes:there is no such thing as nothing, only things we cannot see. the howls of rage! EVE. Literature Network George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah In the Beginning. You are very subtle:tell me what to do. Kill me; and you will find another snake in thegarden tomorrow. EVE [_trying to shake it and roll it over_] It is stiff and cold. The Ancient examines the newly born carefully and pronounces her fit to live. Give it to me; or I willkill you when next I catch you asleep. ADAM. Both shew the greatestconsternation._. Arjillax explains that he intends to place images in the temple that range in age from the newly-born to the full glory of maturity. ADAM. EVE. It found that I wasmyself, and that it was for Abel to be himself also, and look tohimself. You say thatI make a mere convenience of Adam: I who spin and keep the house, andbear and rear children, and am a woman and not a pet animal to pleasemen and prey on them! Theywould be--I want a word for them. ADAM. Other articles where Back to Methuselah is discussed: George Bernard Shaw: Works after World War I: plays under the collective title Back to Methuselah (1922). Promise me you will be careful. You see, Eve,what a splendid thing it is not to have to live for ever. Thechameleon eats the air. Rebecca Sunshine performing a monologue 'The Serpent's Tale'. And you? Of better things. You invented murder. EVE. And yet I must endure myself, not for a dayor for many days, but for ever. Undutiful! I tell you the labor is too much for one. ADAM. A monologue of The Serpent from Back to Methuselah. If only the rest and sleep that enable me to bear it fromday to day could grow after many days into an eternal rest, an eternalsleep, then I could face my days, however long they may last. I will clear themaway tomorrow. They put all sorts ofthoughts into my head. It is I who have to do the miracle. If Lua naggedat me as you are nagging, and as you nag at Adam, I would beat her blackand blue from head to foot. He laughed at me; and then came my great idea: why notkill him as he killed the beasts? He defiantly dares her to remove her veil and robe. EVE. I should be alone. No: I am afraid of it. THE SERPENT. I have done it too, slave as you say I am. One of them is cynical, not believing longevity will happen, but the other deems the theory valid, yet rejects the prospect out of hand because longer lives will be available to everyone instead of only the elite. That is why all this empty talk of yours, which tempted Adam justnow when he threw down his spade and listened to you for a while, wentby me like foul wind that has passed over a dead body. Hewas the discoverer of blood. He kept himself alive byeating meat. The gardenis full, not empty. She did not know then thatimagination is the beginning of creation. One quotation from Back to Methuselah is frequently misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy, even though Kennedy stated that he was quoting Shaw"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' Think. ADAM. ADAM. She is a mere girl of fifty-six and looks more like nineteen to the Elderly Gentleman, who is approaching seventy. Zozim belittles that display as well, but the visitors are overawed and become unnerved completely when the oracle appears as an insubstantial figure amidst lightnings and thunder. Oh! Suppose you were to trip and fall, would you go like that? ADAM. You are lazy: you are dirty: youneglect yourself: you are always dreaming: you would eat bad food andbecome disgusting if I did not watch you and occupy myself with you. ADAM. The Devil thank her for it! EVE. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the manknows that there is no such day as tomorrow. That was the secondbirth. It stirs inside me. But youhave made the serpent our enemy: she has left the garden, or is dead: Inever see her now. and internal kicking rocks it so hard that it must be held steady to keep it from rolling off the altar. Back to Methuselah. No. Back to Methuselah (Revival, Play, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Mar 26, 1958 and played through Apr 19, 1958. CAIN [_rising_] You did well: I, too, do not want to live for ever. Only just now youwanted me to sit still and never move lest I should stumble and die likethe fawn. that know many more crafts than either ofyou, am tired of myself when I am not fighting or hunting. There ishero and superman. I hardly know which of you satisfies me least, you with yourdirty digging, or he with his dirty killing. Stay with the womanwho gives you children: I will go to the woman who gives me dreams.Grope in the ground for your food: I will bring it from the skies withmy arrows, or strike it down as it roams the earth in the pride of itslife. EVE. EVE. David Fielding's abridgement has succeeded in shortening this five-part play down to 4 fascinating hours. EVE. That is how; but it is not why. Back to Methuselah (1952- ) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by Alan Bromly . The thought that we must not cease to be comes fromwithin. I donot know what I want, except that I want to be something higher andnobler than this stupid old digger whom Lilith made to help you to bringme into the world, and whom you despise now that he has served yourturn. The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman begins in 3000 AD, on the south shore of Galway Bay where an old man is found sitting on an ancient stone bollard, once used as a mooring for ships. The Voice does not speak to me as it does to you. Lilith Richard Easton. When I have slain the boar at the risk of my life, I will throwit to my woman to cook, and give her a morsel of it for her pains. I do not want to be a bear. Go on with yourspinning; and do not sit there idle while I am straining my muscles foryou. ADAM. She, however, will live until she has a fatal accident, which, by the laws of chance, is inevitable for everyone. But I should not like it. Life must not cease. He rushes from the courtyard, blowing a whistle to summon the police, but is immobilized, within a force-field, near a monument of Falstaff, where he will stand and gibber until it is convenient to collect him. Will they live long enough to eat manna? Simple primitive societies, he says, were easily governable while the civilized societies of the twentieth century are so complex that learning to govern them properly can't be accomplished within the human lifespan: People with experience enough to serve the purpose fall into senility and die. . All he had to do was tell the public that the oracle had told him exactly what she told his predecessor and let the public believe it was what Sir Eastwind had reported. killing or digging in the garden and says her future sons will find things more wonderful to do. Let me go, you fool. I adore her. EN. 4004 is allegorical. Are you eager to be rid of me? I tell you I will create, though Itear myself to pieces in the act. THE SERPENT. I know the craftof fighting and of hunting: in a word, the craft of killing. THE SERPENT. What is a fool? Adam is digging in themiddle of the garden. But how? Her fury turns to delight with the beauty of her tunic when they dress her. THE SERPENT. Find me a word for the story Lilith imagined and told you in yoursilent language: the story that was too wonderful to be true, and yetcame true. Skip to main content. (The Jewish Publication Society translation,1917). You have invented a word. THE SERPENT. ADAM. I heard a new voice. The creations are a man and woman, noble in appearance, beautiful to look at and splendidly attired. You learnt nothing from him: youdrudged and drudged and drudged, and dug and dug and dug, and made me dothe same. ADAM [_instinctively moving his hand towards her_] Husband and wife. He was the inventor of killing. EVE. If they shorten their lives, they will dig and fight and kill anddie; and their baby Enochs will tell them that it is the will of theVoice that they should dig and fight and kill and die for ever. I had not thought of that. Everything is possible. Something that never could happen, and yet does happen. It is what you are when youforget and brood and are filled with fear. No matter: some day I shallforget and stumble. CAIN. The earth is fruitful. The Voicethought I was nothing but my brother's keeper. EVE. I am tired of myself. He changed the beasts hekilled into meat by the fire on the altar. I made the word dead to describe my old skin that I castwhen I am renewed. EVE. EVE. In rejecting yourdrudgery, have I not embraced evils and agonies of which you knownothing? EVE. EVE. According to Louis Crompton in Shaw the Dramatist (pp. He is at his zenith now but realizes a time will come when the people will rebel and he will become the casualty. A She-Ancient arrives to supervise the birthing. Let itnow give me certainty or go in fear of me. There was no more to prevent him than there was to prevent me:it was man to man; and I won. THE SERPENT. Why should I? Eve will never belonely now that her snake can talk to her. No. No: he, too, must desire and will. THE SERPENT. Only,there must be some end, some end: I am not strong enough to beareternity. That is just what I feel; but it is very strange that you shouldsay so: there is no pleasing you. I revolt against the clay. You may die when I have made another Adam. My old trouble was heavy; but it wassimple. data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAKAAAAB4CAYAAAB1ovlvAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAw5JREFUeF7t181pWwEUhNFnF+MK1IjXrsJtWVu7HbsNa6VAICGb/EwYPCCOtrrci8774KG76 . That is a funny noise to make. Yet I am alive, and can burst myskin and renew myself as before. THE SERPENT. She tells him he would die of discouragement if he talked to elders, male or femaleeven with her, conversation would be dangerous if she were not veiled and robed with insulating material. Ha! You change your mind so often. It must not be, I tellyou. Tell me some miracle that you have done. [She strokes it and pets the serpent]. THE SERPENT. It is very low; but it is so nearthat it is like a whisper from within myself. Confuciusnominally a consultant from China is, de facto, the head of government. CAIN. He rises, stiffens, and falls dead. THE SERPENT. In one word, to conceive. It is a burden. ADAM. Yes. ADAM. Lua was awoman-child when I bore her. I want to see my work sometimes. CAIN. This leads to a rift with two-year-old Stephen, her romantic partner, but she doesn't mind because it frees her to seek solitude, where she can meditate. ADAM. [_Adam, with a weary shrug, throws down his spade. She, being long lived understands no metaphors and speaks the literal truth, while he consistently uses figures of speech instead of stating simple facts. Jealousy. . THE SNAKE. You said there would be no killing because the Voice would tell ourchildren that they must not kill. Their son Cain arrives, boastful and aggressive, proud to have invented murder by killing his brother Abel. Andnow some day, in spite of all my care, you will fall on your head andbecome dead. THE SERPENT. And others think of numbers without having to count ontheir fingers, and watch the sky at night, and give names to the stars,and can foretell when the sun will be covered with a black saucepan lid.And there is Tubal, who made this wheel for me which has saved me somuch labor. I like it. And others makelittle mammoths out of clay, or make faces appear on flat stones, andask me to create women for them with such faces. He says he is with the Prime Minister, who is married to his daughter and with General Aufsteig, who is really the Emperor of Turania, travelling incognito. She is outraged when This accorded with the theories of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, even though Lamarckism was in decline and Charles Darwin's views were ascendant in 1920, when the plays were written. He wants me to die. It is that care thatwill prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your willirresistible; and create out of nothing. [_Hereplaces the hurdle across the passage_]. Eve: do notplay with me about this. ADAM. The Serpent Fusima Chloe M'el Dowd. We shall fall like thefawn and be broken. It gives us the strength by which we made you and all mankind.Cut off from the clay which you despise, you would perish miserably. Bergson, Henri. These wonders that you promise to do may tangle up my beingbefore they bring me the gift of death. There is nosuch day as tomorrow, and never can be. It is terrible; but there is no joy like it. ADAM. What have you made of yourselves? As night is falling, the children seek shelter in the temple. EVE. Why not bringthem up from childhood never to know any other lot, so that they maybelieve that we are gods, and that they are here only to make lifeglorious for us? She was alone: there was no man with her. You made Abel also. Discovering the possibility of death suggests possibilities for other changes and a discussion follows that deals progressively with loneliness and love, uncertainty and fear, fidelity and marriage and the courage found in laughter. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building faade. EVE. EVE. Life has becomeuncertain. She spins resignedly; he digs impatiently. They were first performed in 1922 by the New York Theatre Guild at the old Garrick Theatre in New York City[1] and, in Britain, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1923.[2]. The garden is full of voices sometimes. Thus emboldened, he grandiosely speaks of the greatness of his party, the Potterbills, presently in power, but also losing ground to the villainous opposition party, the Rotterjacks. EVE [_pointing to the fawn_] Like that. You can imagine such an end; but you cannot desire it,therefore cannot will it, therefore cannot create Adams only. And what a wonderful thing! My boy: this is neither man nor woman nor lovenor life. Your bowels become rotten; yourhair falls from you; your teeth blacken and drop out; and you die beforeyour time, not because you will, but because you must. He considered it a book for reading rather than playing on the stage, and was agreeably surprised when Lawrence Langner in New York and Barry Vincent Jackson in Birmingham insisted on producing it despite expectations of monetary loss, which were promptly justified. I wish I had a serpent's tongue. Man need not always live by bread alone. [_he seizes his spear and swings it muscularly_]. 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