Reminds me of The Myth of Cassius - Generating from One's Own Soul.

A young man called Cassius was lost in the outback. He wandered this way and that but was unable to find his way back to human habitation. He feared he would die. Then he came to a fertile glade. Around him he found trees laden with luscious fruit of all kinds, and there was a well with beautiful, clear, bubbling water. So satisfied he was with his surroundings that he gave up the idea of trying to find his way back to civilisation. He spent all his days roaming the glade, sleeping, eating, and drinking. As quickly as he ate the fruit, new ones ripened. Even sexually he was at peace: whenever the sexual urge arose in him, a nymph appeared and fondled him in all the places that gave him pleasure. Then he would fall asleep, and the nymph would vanish. the nymph also ministered to him in other ways. When he longed for music, the nymph would play beautiful music for him on a variety of instruments. When he wanted literature, the nymph would read to him as he lay back in a cool bower. he passed his days in blissful abandon and believed himself to be the luckiest man in the universe.

When Cassius had been living in the glade for about a year, he woke up one morning with a headache, and the nymph was unable to do anything about it. He began to feel a strange restlessness. H could not understand what it was that he wanted. He wandered around the glade, eating fruit, drinking the sparkling water, but he was dissatisfied. Just as he was going to sleep, he realised he was longing for a friend. He knew the myth of Narcissus, so the next morning he went and looked at himself in the water, but he still felt lonely. He even tried shouting, to hear an echo, but that offered no comfort either. The next day when he woke, he decided he would walk in a straight line out of the glade, until he found someone. "I'm bored with myself," he said. He walked and walked until he came to a broad stream, and on the stream he saw a girl rowing a boat. he called to her and asked her her name. "My name is Miriam", she called back. "Please come to me", he called. So she rowed up close to him. "Take me in your boat", he begged. "I want to be your friend". "But you don't know me", she said. "Tell me where you live," he pleaded. "I live a long way from here, in a garden I've constructed all by myself with great effort. I've built a canal from this river to water the garden. Each day I get up and put manure on the desert soil. I dig and I plant seeds, and I harvest the wheat, grind the seeds, and make flour. Each day I bake bread. I grow fruit trees. I have made a violin out of the wood of a chestnut tree: I fashioned the strings from hemp soaked in resin. I play the violin after I have tended the garden. Then in the afternoon I sit down at a desk in the little house that I have made, and I write my novel. in the evening I cook myself a meal."

"Let me join you", said Cassius. "I have worked hard to build my garden", Miriam replied. "I'll only let you come provided you give me a baby." "I don't mind giving you a baby", said Cassius. "Then I will tend the baby, and you will have to rise early in the morning, and you will have to fertilise the soil, and you will have to bake the bread, and you will have to play the violin to me while I'm feeding our baby." "I can do all that", said Cassius breezily. "One last thing I must tell you", said Miriam. "it's the law of the outback. Once I take you in my boat across the river I shall burn the boat, and you can never return to your glade, and you will have lost it forever." Cassius frowned at this, and his frown summoned the nymph. "What do you want that for?" asked the nymph. "I can give you all that she can give. When you want music, I give it to you. When you want sex, I provide it. When you want beautiful literature, I read it to you in a tuneful voice. When you want food, it is there in luxurious abundance in the glade." The nymph led him back to the glade and showed him all that he would lose. The nymph was cunning. "You can have all that she offers without having to leave the glade, without having to cross the river. I'll show you." the nymph rubbed Cassuis' body all over with a perfumed unguent and said, "Now, if you call whatever name you care, the most beautiful companion will come to you." Cassius thought for a moment. He wanted to call out 'Mirium', but the word did not come out as intended. Instead it came out as 'Marian'. Instantly, a beautiful girl appeared who accompanied him everywhere. For a year he lived in the glade with Marian, but then one morning he woke to find she had vanished. Only then did he remember Miriam. He rushed to the river where he had seen her in the boat and called out. Mirium came in her boat, but she said that it was too late. She had found another man and now had a baby. Cassius returned to the glade, went straight to the well, and drowned himself.

May the difference be stark ravingly obvious 🙏