THE DEAF EUNUCH IN THE VIRTUAL HAREM

the point isn't to lie with her ... it's to look at her ... if you took her to bed you'd miss her ... she's not a wife or mistress or girlfriend ... those are people ... they have corners and curves ... she's a trace ... flat up against the screen on the other side of the glass ... and there's no depth at all when she's an object in your mind ... if she moves at all it's only to a point on an electronic compass ... if she tries to leave the screen she goes through a bloodless painless guillotine ... and if you turned off the sound and slowed the motion down you'd see this more clearly ... there ... stop ... freeze the picture ... there she is ... more than anywhere else there ... that's her ... and so it is ... so it is ... you can put her in your wallet put her behind glass put her on the wallpapered screen of your computer ... it doesn't get better than that ... not for the mind permanently soothed by an absolute form ... she's the closest you'll get to that true worship ... just once you'll see the moon make sense and ... the sound returns