。“细细领会作者的意思。我猜，对他而言，上升恰好与损耗相对立。”“也就是说，精神完全崩溃！”“不，说正经的，不开玩笑，你觉得这种观点如何？”她再度将目光转向他。

"Physically wasting?" She said. "I see you getting fatter, and I'm not wasting myself. Do you think the sun is smaller than he used to be? He's not to me. And I suppose the apple Adam offered Eve wasn't really much bigger, if any, than one of our orange pippins. Do you think it was?” Well, hear how he goes on: "It is thus slowly passing, with a slowness inconceivable in our measures of time, to new creative conditions, amid which the physical world, as we at present know it, will he represented by a ripple barely to be distinguished from nonentity." She listened with a glisten of amusement. All sorts of improper things suggested themselves. But she only said: "What silly hocus-pocus! As if his little conceited consciousness 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 past, and will find its grave in an unimaginable future. There remains the inexhaustive realm of abstract forms, and creativity with its shifting character 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.

“物质被消耗？”她质疑着。“我只发现你变得膘肥体壮，而我也没消耗些什么。你认为太阳变得比以前小些了吗？我觉得没有。依我看，即使是亚当献给夏娃的苹果，与现在的橘苹相比，也大不到哪里去。你认为呢？”好吧，听听他接下来这么说：“宇宙就这样缓慢地进化，速度慢到根据我们的方式，无法计算其时间，最终达到全新的境界。而到那时候，我们现在所知的物质世界将会用某种波纹来代表，而这种波纹跟虚无并没什么分别。”她听着，不禁暗觉可笑。心里涌动着不便说出的种种言语。但她只是说：“多么愚蠢的鬼话！似乎他那自以为是的小小思维，就能预见漫长久远的时间里能够发生的一切！这只能说明他在身体层面是个地道的失败者，因此，他希望整个宇宙也重蹈自己的覆辙。简直是胡说八道！”“噢，接着听下去！别打断这位伟大作家的庄严论调！——世界现行的秩序来源自难以想象的过去，并将在难以想象的未来中被埋进坟墓。只剩下无穷无尽的抽象王国，自新不息变幻无穷的创造力，以及主宰大千世界的睿智上帝。——这就是他最终的结论！”康妮坐在那里听着，面露鄙夷之色。

"He's spiritually blown out," she said. "What a l