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Lilith: The Play by Remy de Gourmont
Yahweh (Jehovah) created Lilith, the first woman. She immediately asked him for a mate and he gave her
to Satan!
Satan:
Greetings, companion, given to me by the inexperience of Jehovah! Greetings, beauty
happily escaped from his ageing finger! Greetings whore! Greetings lewdness! I
lacked that vice. Ha! This is a more pleasurable pasture than pride! Pride is hollow.
(Freely caressing the breasts of Lilith, who offers no resistance and closes her eyes) This is
full, this is warm, this is soft!
Lilith is charmed by these manual greetings and falls back writhing and arching her
body. But confronted by a woman he does not know, Satan becomes suddenly stupid
and begins to knead her like heavy dough. He dribbles and his eyes grow bloodshot.
Like a madman he growls, barks and bites. Then Lilith tames him with a skilful
caress. Kneeling solemnly she kisses and adores the male, then lies down, dragging
with her the enlightened demon, who has finally seen which acts and profanities
Lilith desires.
Satan:
Yes, this is how our first embrace should be, we two. We have corrupted love forever!
We have turned it upside down! Female, I love you!
Lilith:
Male, I love you!
Satan:
Female, to you my ejaculation of the evening.
Lilith:
Male, to you my morning prayer.
Satan:
I shall inhale your sex like a bunch of lilac.
Lilith:
I shall feed your sex as if it were a little bird.
Satan:
My universe is there, under that shadow.
Lilith:
My joys fill my hand
Satan:
We have tasted both the bread and the wine. You do not understand? In four or five
thousand years that joke will make its mark. You will see, it is rather blasphemous.
Lilith:
O my daily bread!
Satan:
O my cup of new wine!
Lilith:
I am hungry for your flesh, O my he-goat!
They fall on each other, as though onto their prey, and writhe in frenzied curves.
Then they sink down, shattered, their mouths open, their fingers like hooks curved
into their palms.
Lilith:
(She speaks first in a sensuously weary voice, which does away in a caress after each
invocation.)
Iod, O male, God and Phallus, axis of the world and axis of the spirit, I worship you,
Iod O male!
Satan:
He, O female, matrix and beauty, spiritual indolence, lasciviousness, I worship you,
He O female!
Lilith:
O copulation, female and male, spout and calyx, obscurity of tomorrow, I worship
you, Vau O copulation!
Satan:
He, O female!
Lilith:
Do not call me He, call me Sterility. Am I not the infertile woman?
Satan:
No, your son will be Sodom and your daughter Gomorrah.
Lilith:
May they be blessed, but may they be the only ones - and I shall be the happiest
mother among mothers. Amen.
O Father of future vices, give me the joy of my lips.
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