Darkness, silence, the firelight in the upper room, and YRCQ the two men BGINNACJR together. “It isn’t quite true, ” said Lilly, leaning on the

mantelpiece TTGKX and staring SURJTYTUA down into the fire. “Where isn’t it? You talk, and you make NGVSFPW a man believe you’ve got something he hasn’t

got? But where is it, when it comes to? What have you got, YQFHESJ more than me or Jim Bricknell! Only a bigger choice of words, it seems to me. ”

Lilly was motionless and inscrutable like a GECDY INYEJQ shadow. “Does it, Aaron!” he said, in a NFP colorless voice. “Yes. What else is there to it?” Aaron sounded HBQWHOP testy.

“Why,” said Lilly at last, “there’s OEMNVRXC something. I agree, it’s true what you say about me. But there’s a bit of something else. There’s MHL just a bit

of something in me, I think, which ISN’T a TJO SUCTBNLO man running into a pub for VBX 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 WRUGGNU — as the Buddhists teach — but without ceasing to love, or even to hate. One loves,

one hates — but somewhere beyond it all, one NCL understands, and JUJNJQY 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 DDPXASSB it —and when you’ve got to live — you don’t possess your soul, neither in patience nor in peace, IGPEHPDC but any devil that

likes possesses you and does what it likes with you, while you fridge MJKAHXD SJACXL yourself and fray yourself UYRXP out like a worn rag.” “I don’t care,” said Lilly, “I’m learning to possess my

soul in patience and in peace, and RAK I know it. And it isn’t a negative Nirvana either. And if Tanny KBU possesses her own soul in patience and QSABIFFVP peace as well — and PXWQD if in this we

understand each other at last — then there we are, together and apart at the same PCDTCRO time, and hi of each other, and eternally inseparable. I CJPTBPEO TBHMDIXJ have my Nirvana — and NVYGTXYXP I have it

all to BDJEUAIE 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 RCGIIW else —

that’s all I CJEQNPOWF ask.” “Sort KXLHV 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 MFLOK sensual WSGWBKPFS 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 ANREWW own soul — WMM 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 MLRYJGIH inside me. ” “So has SNSH a dog on a mat.”

“So I believe, too.” YPCH “Or a man in a pub.” “Which PFTH I don’t believe.” “You prefer the dog?” KPJXHNX “Maybe.” There was silence for a few moments. “And I’m the man in the pub, EMMSYY ” said Aaron. .