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sciousness could know what was happening as slowly as
all that! It only means HE’S a physical failure on the earth,
so he wants to make the whole universe a physical failure.
Priggish little impertinence!’
’Oh, but listen! Don’t interrupt the great man’s solemn
words!—’’The present type of order in the world has risen
from an unimaginable part, and will find its grave in an un-
imaginable future. There remains the inexhaustive realm
of abstract forms, and creativity with its shifting charac-
ter ever determined afresh by its own creatures, and God,
upon whose wisdom all forms of order depend.’’—There,
that’s how he winds up!’
Connie sat listening contemptuously.
’He’s spiritually blown out,’ she said. ‘What a lot of stuff!
Unnimaginables, and types of order in graves, and realms
of abstract forms, and creativity with a shifty character, and
God mixed up with forms of order! Why, it’s idiotic!’
’I must say, it is a little vaguely conglomerate, a mixture
of gases, so to speak,’ said Clifford. ‘Still, I think there is
something in the idea that the universe is physically wast-
ing and spiritually ascending.’
’Do you? Then let it ascend, so long as it leaves me safely
and solidly physically here below.’
’Do you like your physique?’ he asked.
’I love it!’ And through her mind went the words: It’s the
nicest, nicest woman’s arse as is!
’But that is really rather extraordinary, because there’s no
denying it’s an encumbrance. But then I suppose a woman
doesn’t take a supreme pleasure in the life of the mind.’