“得一知己,死而無憾。他覺得她的影子會永遠依傍他,安慰他。雖然她恨他,她最后對他的感情強烈到是什么感情都不相干了,只是有感情。他們是原始的獵人與獵物的關系,虎與倀的關系,最終極的占有。她這才生是他的人,死是他的鬼。”
But now that he had enjoyed the love of a beautiful woman, he could die happily-without regret. He could feel her shadow forever near him, comforting him. Even though she had hated him at the end, she had at least felt something. And now he possessed her utterly, primitively-as a hunter does his quarry, a tiger his kill. Alive, her body belonged to him; dead, she was his ghost.