that we should have to take it into practical account?
Maia.
Well, now we shall have to accept it, to be prepared for its tremendous approach.
Chloris [after a pause].
Perhaps this famous "death" may prove after all to be only another kind of life. [Rising and approaching Maia.] Don't you think this is indicated even by the song of these barbarians? Besides, our stay here must be the ante-chamber to something wholly different.
Maia.
We can hardly suppose that it can lead to nothing.
Chloris.
No; surely we shall put off more or less
leisurely, with dignity or without it, the garments of our sensuous existence, and discover something underneath all these textures of the body?