It’s me, it’s no longer me, Ah it’s me again

C’est moi, Ce n’est plus moi, Ah encore moi

photo Dara McGrath

Galatea suddenly awakes, and finds that by touch that she both knows herself : “C’est moi” : and comprehends the exteriority of material things like blocks of marble : “Ce n’est plus moi” : yet curiously in touching her solipsistic creator she finds only more of herself : “Ah encore moi” : she sighs

(In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s scene lyrique Pygmalion)
GROSS Kenneth the Dream of the Moving Statue p85