Summary
A chisel-wielding demiurge named Carillo fashions marble into living sighs beside his luminous wife Selma, their cottage a tabernacle of mutual wonder—until the Devil, bored by such purity, dispatches a trident of imps whose names hiss like cracked absinthe bottles: Lust, Drink, Self-Pity. The studio becomes a brothel of shadows; marble dust turns to ash on the tongue. Carillo, drunk on synthetic stars, signs his honor away with a stylus carved from his own rib, then wakes to find Selma’s silhouette erased from the bedsheet. In the crater of abandonment, Loyalty—an androgynous angel wearing Selma’s face—descends, presses a penitent chisel into her palm, and under a splintered cruciform moon she carves Repentance into the floorboards. The Devil, allergic to such salt, recoils; the couple rise, stripped of Youth and Honor yet clothed in the burnished copper of Experience.
Synopsis
Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil. When he loses love, he finally crumbles until Loyalty regenerates him when Selma carves Repentance under the shadow of the cross. This causes Satan to recoil, and the couple start a new life without Youth and Honor, but enriched by Wisdom and Experience.
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