Higgins Laboratory Pigmalion

Higgins's laboratory is situated in Wimpole Street. Wimpole Street is a street in central London, England. Located in the City of Westminster, it is associated with private medical practice and medical associations. Having a laboratory in this place tells about him as a well-to-do person and a person connected with science. It is a room on the first floor, looking on the street, and was meant for drawing room. So it must be the most important room in his house. In one corner stands a flat writing table with all the necessary devices like a phonograph, a laryngoscope and others. These things show that their owner deals with sounds, he investigates the production of sounds; this is the place for practice.

Further down the room, on the same side, is a fireplace, with a comfortable leather-covered easy-chair. This shows that Higgins often takes a rest here in front of the fire. Between the fireplace and the phonograph table is a stand for newspapers, which shows that he as a real Englishman reads newspapers. There is a telephone on one of the drawers.

Most of the side wall is occupied by a grand piano. On the piano is a dessert dish heaped with fruit and sweets, mostly chocolates. This shows that the owner of the laboratory has guests and visitors, and also he is a musician.

There is one stray chair near the fireplace serving for a visitor. There is not a painting on the walls, only portraits.

This laboratory serves for practice, for having guests, for relaxing in front of the fireplace with a newspaper. It is luxuriously furnished and contains everything for taking research. There are not extra, unnecessary things which may detract from work. And this is Professor Higgins, sort of man of forty or thereabouts, of the energetic, scientific type, heartily interested in everything that can be studied as a scientific subject.

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