Protect your-family - up to 70% off http://www.wrelind.eu/l/lt8F630XU150HV/170C593G646YC53O3608157SG3211131189 To Re-mo-ve http://www.wrelind.eu/l/lc9Q630GV150MP/170T593A646GH53G3608157QG3211131189 Darkness, silence, the firelight in the upper room, and GWAH the two men DMKKKISIK together. “It isn’t quite true, ” said Lilly, leaning on the mantelpiece BIOPD and staring WHKUTCOVL down into the fire. “Where isn’t it? You talk, and you make YCEHKBK a man believe you’ve got something he hasn’t got? But where is it, when it comes to? What have you got, RHYDRKL more than me or Jim Bricknell! Only a bigger choice of words, it seems to me. ” Lilly was motionless and inscrutable like a MSXOD MGHJPT shadow. “Does it, Aaron!” he said, in a ELX colorless voice. “Yes. What else is there to it?” Aaron sounded VHJWLOE testy. “Why,” said Lilly at last, “there’s WRQOBQTV something. I agree, it’s true what you say about me. But there’s a bit of something else. There’s BHK just a bit of something in me, I think, which ISN’T a VFB CTILDXFK man running into a pub for KFI a drink —” “And what —?” The question fell into the twilight like a drop of water falling down a deep shaft into a well. “I think a man may come into possession of his own soul at last TPFGGLF — as the Buddhists teach — but without ceasing to love, or even to hate. One loves, one hates — but somewhere beyond it all, one ADT understands, and ETQCWAM possesses one’s soul in patience and in peace —” “Yes,” said Aaron slowly, “while you only stand and talk about it. But when you’ve got no chance to talk about UIOWCYKI it — and when you’ve got to live — you don’t possess your soul, neither in patience nor in peace, WPUJVDEN but any devil that likes possesses you and does what it likes with you, while you fridge IMVVRXY NCUEGR yourself and fray yourself HTPPK out like a worn rag.” “I don’t care,” said Lilly, “I’m learning to possess my soul in patience and in peace, and ORJ I know it. And it isn’t a negative Nirvana either. And if Tanny ACG possesses her own soul in patience and PWSNAYDKL peace as well — and BJDAI if in this we understand each other at last — then there we are, together and apart at the same SEGXLAH time, and hi of each other, and eternally inseparable. I HPWRFQBF TJWSCNVB have my Nirvana — and QIOURRUDL I have it all to BJLOJUVA myself. But more than that. It coincides with her Nirvana.” “Ah, yes,” said Aaron. “But I don’t understand all that word- splitting.” “I do, though. You learn to be quite alone, and possess your own soul in isolation — and at the same time, to be perfectly WITH someone RNHKOO else — that’s all I GYLADBXHU ask.” “Sort GVPYQ of sit on a mountain top, back to back with somebody else, like a couple of idols.” “No — because it isn’t a case of sitting — or a case of back to back. It’s what you get to after a lot of fighting and a lot of MEENN sensual RDYMYBGPI fulfilment. And it never does away with the fighting and with the sensual phiion. it flowers on top of them, and it would never flower save on top of them.” “What wouldn’t?” “The possessing one’s SGYAHL own soul — CLO and the being together with someone else in silence, beyond speech.” “And you’ve got them?” “I’ve got a BIT of the real quietness AUJIQBHJ inside me. ” “So has NNNE a dog on a mat.” “So I believe, too.” BHJB “Or a man in a pub.” “Which VIEC I don’t believe.” “You prefer the dog?” ANXHMXO “Maybe.” There was silence for a few moments. “And I’m the man in the pub, ACCRCW ” said Aaron. .