In my previous post, in which I mentioned Sorin and Trigorin (Sorin + Trigorin = Sirin +
orgitron), the characters
in Chekhov's play "The Seagull," I interrupted the quote from Ada
too early. I now proceed:
The scene is Eocene and the actors are
fossils.
In "The Seagull" (Act One), the audience of Treplev's
experimental play is shown what will be in two hundred thousand
years, when all creatures who lived on Earth are dead (and became thus
fossils):
NINA. All men and beasts, lions, eagles, and
quails, horned stags, geese, spiders, silent fish that inhabit the waves,
starfish from the sea, and creatures invisible to the eye--in one word,
life--all, all life, completing the dreary round imposed upon it, has died out
at last...
Alexey Sklyarenko