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Separate Rooms We are an aging couple in a house surrounded by silence, left to ourselves to do with our lives as we wish in the security of our persons, to act as we had wanted to since youth—freely and spontaneously towards one another, given our lives' long wish in old age, lying in separate beds in separate rooms. Knowledge Lying between her legs, he was performing an obeisance. It was his known self, certainly not intended to create a child, nor to make sex the existence. There would be transformations of his bones and body in regal time, time that was this thrusting towards the sadness of climax within an aperture of flesh, as she who lay beneath him heaved towards what they sought in common and that would bring them to such pleasure as to obliterate, at least for then, the knowledge of their future death. 767 ...

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