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GRACE: Then what is this? I want a lesson with this.
HOOKE: (Laughing) If you insist.
GRACE: I do.
HOOKE: Open your delectable mouth as wide as you can.
GRACE: (Pouting) You re being a lewd uncle again just to vex me.
HOOKE: On the contrary, niece, I m about to combine prim scientific
precision of manner with extreme intimacy of content. So stop
procrastinating and open your mouth.
(GRACE obeys. HOOKE puts his forefinger into her mouth.)
GRACE: (Talking with his finger in her mouth) And this is scientific?
(HOOKE withdraws his finger.)
HOOKE: Yes. Despite cleaning your teeth with salt this morning, I
have still acquired this white matter on my finger. This is what grows
between your front teeth and your grinders.
GRACE: Ugh!
HOOKE: Open your mouth again.
GRACE: Do I have to?
HOOKE: If you wish to have a lesson in astonishment, yes.
(HOOKE puts his other forefinger into her mouth. Then he withdraws his
finger.)
GRACE: Now your other finger is also slimy with my spittle!
HOOKE: Hush and observe, Grace, while I mix your spittle with the
white matter from your pearly teeth& like so. Now peer into the
microscope.
(GRACE looks down into the microscope.)
Newton s Hooke: Act 1, Scene 3 43
HOOKE: What do you see?
GRACE: In the white matter, there are many& very little& living
creatures who are all prettily moving. They re like your illustrations in
your Micrographia .
HOOKE: They are. But then unlike Mr Newton and his elitist friends
who limit themselves by only examining non-living matter (Indicating
the microscope) I have spent much of my time on biological
examination. I am fascinated by all the phenomena of life. One day I
hope to prove that the same laws govern dead and living matter. Like my
friend Mr Boyle, I believe that The eye of a fly exhibits a more curious
workmanship than the body of the sun . But as you re unwilling to
relieve my loins of their pressing burden, my sweet, I shall retire to my
observatory to earn my pittance in the Royal Society s service.
(GRACE gives him his gruel.)
GRACE: First you must break your fast.
HOOKE: Not until I ve perused that pile of puerile papers to prevent
their appearing in the Society s Transactions .
GRACE: Why torment your eyes in such a fruitless cause?
HOOKE: It s far from fruitless. Because of my Herculean efforts, the
Society s magazines are no longer teeming with bovine burble. Early
issues were crammed with morbid accounts of werewolves, animated
horsehairs and, God help us, three-headed hermaphrodites. One pissmire
of a physician even published An account of a Foetus that continued 46
years in the Mother s womb !
GRACE: Now don t make yourself choleric, Uncle Robert. You ll only
set off those lightnings inside your brain that cause you to vomit, like
you did yesterday. So calm yourself and eat your gruel like a good
philosopher.
HOOKE: (Eating his gruel) It wasn t anger made me void my guts.
GRACE: Was it concerning all the& blood on the table?
44 Newton s Darkness: Two Dramatic Views
HOOKE: I didn t intend you to clean it, my dear, but I was utterly
distraught when I fled to the coffee house. I was so consumed with guilt,
I couldn t sleep. (Pushing the gruel away) Forgive me, but I can t eat
this.
(HOOKE covers his face with his hands. GRACE tries to comfort him.)
GRACE: In Heaven s name, what s tormenting you, Robert?
HOOKE: For the betterment of mankind, I used to think that all
experiments could be justified& but now&
(Another sob racks him.)
GRACE: Share your pain with me. I beg you!
HOOKE: While you were with Mrs Comple, I continued my
investigation into animal respiration. I ve long believed my findings
would prove beneficial for human kind. So I performed another
experiment with a stray dog. Using a pair of bellows, I filled the dog s
lungs with air. When I suffered its lungs to empty again, I discovered I
was able to keep the animal alive even after I had sliced open its&
its&
(With his head in hands, HOOKE trails off.)
GRACE: God in Heaven.
HOOKE: Well invoked, niece. The Almighty was watching me as I
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