"Death is the mother of beauty,"said Henry.
"And what is beauty?"
"Terror."
"Well said," said Julian. "Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming"
I looked at Camilla, her face bright in the sun, and thought of that line from the Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining.
"And if beauty a terror," said Julian "then what in desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one what is it"
"To live," said Camilla.
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