'He's so thin
already, there's only a fag-end to start on.'
'Oh, isn't it beautiful! I love reading it! I believe it has cured my
hiccup!' squealed Halliday. 'Do let me go on. "It is a desire for the
reduction process in oneself, a reducing back to the origin, a return
along the Flux of Corruption, to the original rudimentary conditions of
being--!" Oh, but I DO think it is wonderful. It almost supersedes the
Bible-'
'Yes--Flux of Corruption,' said the Russian, 'I remember that phrase.'
'Oh, he was always talking about Corruption,' said the Pussum. 'He must
be corrupt himself, to have it so much on his mind.'
'Exactly!' said the Russian.
'Do let me go on! Oh, this is a perfectly wonderful piece! But do
listen to this. "And in the great retrogression, the reducing back of
the created body of life, we get knowledge, and beyond knowledge, the
phosphorescent ecstasy of acute sensation." Oh, I do think these
phrases are too absurdly wonderful. Oh but don't you think they
ARE--they're nearly as good as Jesus.
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