Because when the death-dealing powers of ice and cold reach your loins, your breasts and hips and buttocks as well as your heart-it was already deep in her heart, surely-then there will be no more woman. And you won't survive that. No matter what I or any man chooses to do.
In Philip K. Dick's "Now Wait for Last Year," the author explores the profound impact of icy, death-inducing forces on a woman's femininity and essence. The quote highlights how the encroachment of coldness affects not just physical forms but penetrates deeply into the emotional and spiritual core, suggesting that such forces can strip away essential aspects of identity.
The passage implies that once this destructive power reaches deeply into a woman's...