“The harmony of two bodies expressed in this single touch, bridging their differences and bending their moral reserve, was as powerful and wild asphysical fulfillment, yet there was nothing false in this harmony, noillusion created that just by touching, our bodies could express feelingsthat rationality prevented us from making permanent; I might even say thatour bodies cooly preserved their good sense, scheming and keeping eachother in check, as if to say, I'll yield unreservedly to the madness ofthe moment but only if and when you do the same; but this physical pleafor passion and reason, spontaneity and calculation, closeness anddistance, took our bodies past the point where, clinging to desire andstriving for the moment of gratification, they would seek a new and more complete harmony.”

Peter Nadas

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