n doesn't take a supreme pleasure in the life of the mind.” "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.

“可这样的回答确实出乎我的意料，因为肉体不过是种累赘，这点毫无疑问。但我想女人根本体验不到精神生活的极致快乐。”“极致快乐？”她说着，抬起头看着他。“那种白痴的理论就代表着精神生活的极致快乐吗？不，谢谢！我还是选择肉体好了。我相信肉体的生活比精神的生活更真实，特别是当肉体被彻底唤醒时。但有太多人，只是将精神寄托在行尸走肉般的躯壳上，跟你那些卷扬机没什么两样。”他惊讶地看着她。

"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 life. With the Greeks it gave a lovely flicker, then Plato and Aristotle killed it, and Jesus finished it off. But now the body is coming really to life, it is really rising from the tomb. And it will be a lovely, lovely life in the lovely universe, the life of the human body.” "My dear, you speak as if you were ushering it all in! True, you am going away on a holiday: but don't please be quite so indecently elated about it. Believe me, whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.” "Why should I believe you, Clifford, when I feel that whatever God there is has at last wakened up in my guts, as you call them, and is rippling so happily there, like dawn. Why should I believe you, when I feel so very much the contrary?" "Oh, exactly! And what has caused this extraordinary change in you? Running out stark naked in the rain, and playing Bacchante? desire for sensation, or the anticipation of going to Venice?"

“肉体的生命，”他说，“不过是禽兽的生命。”“那也比行尸走肉的生命强百倍。可你的论调根本就是错的！人类的肉体刚刚开始复活。在古希腊时期，它曾经辉煌一时，但被柏拉图与亚里士多德之流扼杀，而耶稣则彻底将它毁灭。但时至今日，肉体再度恢复生机，真正从坟墓中走出