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David Nadeau - Hadaly Hacked (Vocoder Farewells)

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“Hadaly,” said the scientist, “that is the form in which you will be incarnated!”

The vision took .a step toward the radiant image, which she appeared to contemplate for a

moment from behind the darkness of her veil. Then she murmured in a soft voice, as if to

herself:

“Oh, so beautiful—and to force me to live!”

And bowing her head on her chest with a deep sigh, she whispered:

“So be it!”

The magnesium went out. The vision in the frame disappeared.

Before the spell of emotion which this picture caused had been dispelled, the professor

raised his hands to the height of the vision’s forehead. She trembled a little, then, without a

word, she offered the symbolic golden flower to Lord Ewald, who could not repress a faint chill

when he accepted it.

Turning to one side, the phantom began the same somnambulistic walk back to the

mysterious regions whence she had come. When she reached the threshold she turned, and,

raising her two hands toward the black veil over her face, slie threw, with a charming gesture, a

kiss to the professor and his guest.

Then she entered the opening, lifted a fold of one of the black draperies, and disappeared

from view.

The wall closed again. There was the same somber, rumbling noise that was heard before,

but this time it seemed to be descending and dying away into the bowels of the earth. It stopped

as suddenly as it had begun. The two men were again alone under the bright lights of the

laboratory.

“Who is this strange being?” Lord Ewald demanded, half fearfully, placing in his lapel the

emblematic flower that Hadaly had given to him.

The professor fixed his gaze on Lord Ewald’s face as he replied calmly:

“It is not a living being!”

At these words the younger man also stared in turn at the scientist, as if demanding whether

he had heard rightly.

“Yes,” the professor continued, replying to the unspoken question in the young man’s eyes, “I

affirm that this form which walks, speaks, and obeys, is not a person or a being in the ordinary

sense of the word.”

Then, as Lord Ewald still looked at him in silence, he went on:

“At present it is not an entity; it is no one at all! Hadaly, externally, is nothing but an electro-

magnetic thing—a being of limbo—a possibility.

“Presently, if you wish, I will unveil to you the secret of her magic nature. But here is

something that will give you enlightenment.”


(From Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, The Future Eve)

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