"Then, perhaps, Paola's body had succumbed to her soul. To the immortal soul, to the sentimental soul, to the beautiful soul: and behold, the joyful truth of her body had become clouded, she had become distorted; she had become an inferior good. Temptation, lies: as in the book of Genesis. Except that the temptation had been the soul: the immortal or the sentimental or the beautiful. It is the soul that lies, not the body. "Our body is the good dog that leads the blind.""