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He would say during the daytiht I shall know the little hollow under her ankle,

where the blue vein crosses" And the thought of it, and the

desire for it, o all the day waiting for the night to coive himself to the enjoyht of the hidden resources

of her, the undiscovered beauties and ecstatic places of delight

in her body, waiting, only waiting for him to discover them,

sent hihtly insane He was obsessed If he did not

discover and ht be

lost for ever He wished he had a hundred ies, with

which to enjoy her [He wished he were a cat, to lick her with a

rough, grating, lascivious tongue He wanted toin her,

bury himself in her flesh, cover hie, dangerous, glistening look

in her eyes received all his activities upon her as if they were

expected by her, and provoked him when he was quiet to more,

till sometimes he was ready to perish for sheer inability to be

satisfied of her, inability to have had enough of her

Their children beca to them, they lived in

the darkness and death of their own sensual activities

So mad with a sense of Absolute