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dogs. I want to be a prostitute . I want to die . After coitus all men are
sad . Naturally. With this kind of coitus . Let's move on . In this phase
Rebekah's aura is a huge ragged flare a brush fire everyone feels it she
turns everyone on we decide to hold open house a constant stream of
men singly in large groups file through her legs the neighbors are
beginning to complain one day we ' re making love I put my hands
around her throat Ifyou come I'm going to kill you I say she moans and
starts to come my hands tighten next thing I know I'm in a new phase.
That's the closest I'll ever come to murder. I'm in shock for three days .
In the next phase we don ' t make love . We meditate. This is the Phase
ofImagination . We contemplate one another's beauty we withdraw
into ourselves I try to imagine what she feels like You know what
Rebekah says one day.
What.
I don't know you.
Check . Tentatively gradually we start making love again only we
don't go all the way we stop short of orgasm. We neck a lot and play
around I feel like a kid again. We 're using what we call The Rhythm
Method in The Rhythm Method you try to sense your partner's rhythm
you don ' t try to lay anything on her you get attuned it's like a new
combo tuning up ifyou don ' t get the rhythm you don't make the love .
You wait. You come to the point of orgasm and then withdraw you
withdraw back into yourself you contain the energy instead of getting it
off this fills you with a lot of energy the only trouble is it drives you
crazy. All that energy instead of streaming out through your genitals
detours back up into your head and presses against the top of your skull
you feel like you're going to start levitating any minute this is a good
time to eat Newton's Apple . If you don't fly offinto the stratosphere at
this point you become hyperconscious. You begin to see. When you
begin to see you begin to cry . This happens to Rebekah and myself at
exactly the same moment What's wrong I say .
What do you mean.
You're crying .
So are you.
How come.
I feel sorry for you . How come you .
Ditto. This is where The Rhythm Method gives way to The Wave
Theory. Let's plot this on a graph get a piece of graph paper. Draw two
