Vincent van Gogh Lane with Poplars painting

Vincent van Gogh Lane with Poplars paintingGeorge Frederick Watts Orpheus and Eurydice detail paintingUnknown Artist The SunFlowers painting
; there was simply no other aspect of their togetherness to rhapsodize about. -- At the same time, however, he felt himself becoming aroused. He began to see himself standing outside her window, while she stood there naked like an actress on a screen, and a man's hands caressed her in a thousand ways, bringing her closer and closer to ecstasy; he came to see himself as that pair of hands, he could almost feel her coolness, her responses, almost hear her cries. -- He controlled himself. His desire disgusted him. She was unattainable; this was pure voyeurism, and he would not succumb to it. -- But the desire Gibreel's revelations had aroused would not go away.
Gibreel's sexual obsession, Chamcha reminded himself, actually made things easier. "She's certainly a very was gratified to receive a furious, strung-out glare in return. After which Gibreel, making a show of controlling himself, put his arm around Saladin and boomed: "Apologies, Spoono, I'm a bad-tempered bugger