Second Voice: Knock it in the head with the axe. Then watch it bleed. Stick its throat and catch the blood in a dish. Blood is good to drink. Blood pudding. Cut it open along the bacon. Cut out the melt first. Hog liver fried in fat is good. A little onion. Pepper. Makes your mouth water.
Theodosia: But the hog is still alive. Where is the hog now?
First Voice: You asked him for bread and he gave you a serpent.
Second Voice: What was she out to kill?
Fourth Voice: She helped Lethe kill Ross.
Second Voice: She wanted to kill. Kill! kill! Why didn’t she kill a hog?
Theodosia: Where was I? Oh, yes.
And his fingers, they noticed, were ever straying
As if impatient to be playing
Upon his pipe, as low it dangled