19/27 And it was then that my mouth came closest to your mouth." "The night," she said, her soul carried aloft on a wave of beauty, "the night caresses the caresses." "I took your hand, and I knew that you would live life whole. When I used to say 'Helene,' I did not know what I was saying. Now, when I shall say 'she,' it will be everything." Once more their lips joined. Their mouths and their eyes were those of Adam and Eve. I recalled the ancestral lesson from which sacred history and human history flow as from a fountain. |