ADAM: I seek a woman I do not know, yet already I will bless her skin
BROTHERS: let us dance and perform carpentry as an outlet for our sevenfold lust
ADAM: you will be a wife to me
MILLY: yes to only you and none of your relatives
ADAM: you will be a wife to everyone we live with
MILLY: no, only yours
ADAM: a wife to me and a servant to them, then
MILLY: steal for me six shadows, six twins, six simulacra of that which is of myself, to serve the house
bring me the women who will suffer with me
BROTHERS: we have produced a barn
now who will give us their daughters for sex and dish washing
BROTHERS: Brother, we are miserable as beasts, for we are surrounded by animals and trees, yet cannot mate with any of them
GIDEON: there is nothing to put sex in for us here
ADAM: I have learned from this book of the past that women are kidnappable
CALEB: I met a woman once
ADAM: perfect
WOMAN: I feign the child
WOMAN: I will also feign the child
WOMAN: the false child is mine
TOWNSPEOPLE: let them stay kidnapped
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.