Johannes seeks advice from the nihilistic poet Baal regarding his innocent mistress and his anxieties about physical intimacy. Baal responds with a visceral, poetic, and ultimately cynical monologue that oscillates between deifying the act of love and describing its grotesque, animalistic consequences.
BAAL: When you lie stretched out in the grass at night you feel in your bones that the earth is a sphere and that we are flying and that there are animals on this star eating up the plants.
JOHANNES: You know something of astronomy?
BAAL: No.
JOHANNES: I have a mistress. She is the most innocent thi
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