Goltzius and the Pelican Company Page #2

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"The Discovery of Original Carnal Sin

"by Adam and Eva

in the Garden of Eden".

This is man.

God's property-

The first sin and possible crime

is voyeurisme.

You must of course ask yourself

what, in fact, will this Colmar audience

be doing now?

What, in fact, are you doing now?

Is the theatre the legitimate place

where we permit ourselves

to be licensed Voyeurs'?

This is woman.

God and man's property.

So, we had secured a foothold

on their credibility.

As I hope we have on yours.

The Creation was much more conceptual.

God would never have been so vulgar.

Don't you think, Rabbi,

that it was very beautiful?

No, I do not.

This was a display of abject carnality,

fit for a bordello!

- Genesis is never so explicit.

- Unfortunately not.

Otherwise we would all believe

with much greater enthusiasm.

We are going, of course,

to tell the old, old story,

in the accustomed manner

of long and venerable repute.

The slow anticipation

of the business of love

building up

to its true demonstration.

Get the nipples to itch,

the scrotums to tighten,

the pricks to rise,

the mound of Venus to swell.

Man.

I call you...

...Adam.

Adam is an ancient Aramaic word

meaning many things.

A beginning. A start.

An ego. An eye.

An empty space ready to be inked in.

As I give you a name,

you must now...

As God gives Adam a name,

he must now do likewise

to everything else

in this fresh, clean,

brave new world.

Choose wisely.

I had employed an English playwright,

Boethius.

Said he knew

all the new English playwrights.

So many choices.

So many to choose from.

Stan with the larger concepts

and move freely down

through the categories of size.

That's what I always do.

Sky!

Very good.

English theatre was booming at that time.

Still is.

I paid him a fee of 8 a play.

I met him at a theatre in Southwark.

We were both taking a sh*t together.

He noticeably wore no underlinen.

Tree.

Yes. Indeed, I see you have

quite grasped the concept.

You are beginning

to understand God's intentions.

Well done, Adam! Well done.

Roughly shoved his prick

into his codpiece

as though it was

a serviceable sword into a scabbard.

Now, I will leave you

in order to spend a little time

with some abstract values

that still need attending to.

Do not exceed yourself.

I liked this playwright.

I liked what I saw of his prick

and how he handled it.

What effrontery!

You cannot clap God.

Why ever not?

- May your palms burn in hell.

- Jesus!

He was only applauding good works,

like a good Christian.

- I'm going to clap with him!

- So am I.

The Biblical Creation of Man

- and woman -

for painters,

has always presented problems.

There is just about

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