'the multitudinous beauties of her body'
.
. . And he began to discover her. He had an inkling of the vastness of the
unknown sensual store of delights she was. With a passion of voluptuousness
that made him dwell on each tiny beauty, in a kind of frenzy of enjoyment, he
lit upon her: her beauty, the beauties, the separate, several beauties of her
body.
He
was quite ousted from himself, and sensually transported by that which he
discovered in her. He was another man reveling over her. There was no
tenderness, no love between them any more, only the maddening, sensuous lust
for discovery and the insatiable, exorbitant gratification in the sensual
beauties of her body. And she was a store, a store of absolute beauties that it
drove him to contemplate. There was such a feast to enjoy, and he with only one
man’s capacity.
He
lived in a passion of sensual discovery with her for some time—it was a duel:
no love, no words, no kisses even, only the maddening perception of beauty
consummate, absolute through touch. He wanted to touch her, to discover her,
maddeningly he wanted to know her. Yet he must not hurry, or he missed
everything. He must enjoy one beauty at a time. And the multitudinous beauties
of her body, the many little rapturous places, sent him mad with delight, and
with desire to be able to know more, to have strength to know more. For all was
there.
—
D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
(1915)
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