“Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”
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“There is something that holds us together, something that has no word —”
The Serpent, Adam, and Eve, in Pt. I, Act I
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Context: THE SERPENT: The voice in the garden is your own voice.
ADAM: It is; and it is not. It is something greater than me: I am only a part of it.
EVE: The Voice does not tell me not to kill you. Yet I do not want you to die before me. No voice is needed to make me feel that.
ADAM [throwing his arm round her shoulder with an expression of anguish]: Oh no: that is plain without any voice. There is something that holds us together, something that has no word —
THE SERPENT: Love. Love. Love.
ADAM: That is too short a word for so long a thing.
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