‘Worse – by far,’ he said. ‘Death, according to one’s belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don’t suddenly alter just because the body’s gone. But this means a radical alteration, a complete change, a horrible loss of oneself by substitution – far worse than death, and not even annihilation. We happen to have camped in a spot where their region touches ours, where the veil between has worn thin’ – horrors! he was using my very own phrase, my actual words – ‘so that they are aware of our being in their
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