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"I say think you think intentionally Did you really think, then your sense of the beauty of the world would not be inexpressible, unutterable It would be clear, sharp, definite You could put it into words Your personality would be clear, sharp, and definite as your thoughts and words Ergo, Leo, when you deem, in exalted moods, that you are at the su, dancing aa step of the dance or the y You don't know yourself Your soul, your personality, at that , inflating hih the darkness to a wartypersonality
"No, Leo, personality is too vague for any of our vague personalities to grasp There are see men with the personalities of woed human creatures that are neither fish, flesh, nor fowl We, as personalities, float like fog-wisps through gloo and y and misty in the thick of the mystery"
"Maybe it's mystification instead of mystery--man-made mystification," Paula said
"There talks the true woman that Leo thinks is not a half-soul," Dick retorted "The point is, Leo, sex and soul are all interwoven and tangled together, and we know little of one and less of the other"
"But women are beautiful," the boy sta wickedly "So, Leo, you identify wo poet's lips moved, but he could only nod
"Very well, then, let us take the testi the last thousand years, as a reflex of economic conditions and political institutions, and by it see how e of his desire, and how she has permitted him--"
"YouLeo," Paula interfered, "and be truthful, all of you, and say what you do know or do believe"
"Woman is a very sacred subject," Dar Hyal enunciated sole into the breach to Paula's aid
"And the cérébrale," Terrence added, winning a nod of approval from Dar Hyal
"One at a time," Hancock said "Let us consider the Madonna-worship, which was a particular woeneral woman- worship of all wo savage He dislikes to be pestered He likes tranquillity, repose And he finds hian, saddled to a restless, nervous, irritable, hysterical traveling companion, and her naers, and moral irresponsibilities He couldn't destroy her He had to have her, although she was always spoiling his peace What was he to do?"