18/38 It could go, and there would be no ABSOLUTE loss, if every human being perished tomorrow. The reality would be untouched. The real tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intolerable burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infinite weight of mortal lies.' 'So you'd like everybody in the world destroyed ?' said Ursula. You yourself, don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up ?' The pleasant sincerity of his voice made Ursula pause to consider her own proposition. |