`Supreme pleasure?' she said, looking up at him. `Is that sort of idiocy the supreme pleasure of the life of the mind? No thank you! Give me the body. I believe the life of the body is a greater reality than the life of the mind: when the body is really wakened to life. But so many people, like your famous wind−machine, have only got minds tacked on to their physical corpses.' He looked at her in wonder. `The life of the body,' he said, `is just the life of the animals.' `And that's better than the life of professional corpses. But it's not true! the human body is only just coming to real
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