“Polly felt a cold dread at her heart. Was it possible that the flame of sex could be kept burning only by the breaking of more taboos? After group sex and orgies, what then? Rubber fetishism? Fladge? Child porn? Snuff movies? ‘Where does it end?’ she said.
‘It ends with old age,’ said Jeremy. ‘Impotence. Death. But I don’t intend to give in until I absolutely have to.’
‘You don’t think there’s anything after death?’
‘You know I don’t.’
‘I do.’
‘That’s just your Catholic upbringing.’
‘I don’t know what’s more frightening, the idea that there’s life after death or the idea that there isn’t,’ said Polly.”
–David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?