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I could tell she didn’t enjoy our sexual encounters.no, that was not it - she did enjoy herself to a certain extent, she took pleasure from it, but never letthe pleasure overtake her. I don’t know if I’m making any sense here. it was not that she lacked thephysical ability to experience pleasure, more like she didn’t allow herself to. whenever the electriccurrent of fulfilled physical desire was about to bolt through her body she would halt it, hold it at baylike it were too much.this peculiarity of our relationship didn’t bother me in the least, I swear. her reluctance to let herselfgo completely was not apparent to just anyone; it wasn’t something she threw at your face. on thecontrary, she was amazingly pleasing in bed without seeming servile. she somehow managed theright balance. the first time I noticed this subtlety about her I put all my efforts into making her enjoysex as much as me, but it quickly became apparent she preferred it her way. I never raised theissue in conversation - after all it was not that sort of relationship. so from then on whenever wemade love I tried not to think about it, as if I’d never come to notice. this wasn’t very difficult since atthe time a mere look at her body would turn me on - I was young, you see.she had a long and graceful neck and a straight set of shoulders. her well-shaped breasts were bigenough that I couldn’t quite cup them in my hands. her stomach was flat and lean and her hip-bones stood out against the elastic of her panties, leaving a space through which you could catch aglimpse of her pubic hair. whenever we were lying down after making love I would rest my head just above her navel and stare into this secret place. once I told her about my fascination with theway her panties never adjusted right to her lower belly when she lied face-up. she laughed at myremark, but said I could stare as much as I wanted. I spent a lot of time doing this.it may sound odd but I’m not one to fall asleep automatically after sexual intercourse. sure I feel likesomeone had sucked the life out of me - in a good, nice sort of way -, but I cannot go to sleepstraight away. I normally light up a cigarette, not out of some obscure fancy for old cliches, butbecause it helps me think - or rather, be lost in thought. most people have some thing or other thattriggers a certain mood - you could call it a mood catalyst. my sister, for example, says whenevershe has a problem that bothers her she needs to sit on the ground, in the kitchen or the bathroom,in order to wave it away. she is convinced that it’s the sense of enclosure and the cold from the tilesthat does it. she’s a weird one, my sister. the girl I slept with also had her own thinking catalysts:the bus or the train. according to her these were the best to cleanse your mind because as youlooked at the rushing images through the window, the sheer amount of visual information at suchhigh speed overwhelmed your mind and soon you had to stop paying attention altogether. it sort ofmade sense to me, though I wouldn’t know for sure since I normally read in the public transports -she said she couldn’t, it gave her a headache.this is the sort of information I was able to gather throughout our encounters - mismatched piecesof her, small but important details that left the overall picture full of holes nonetheless. I sometimesfelt I knew more about her that most people she dealt with on less uncommon situations. this was
 
due to the fact that she never shied away from telling me her personal views or her most intimatesecrets.on an october afternoon we were both in her bed after having had sex. she had dozed off underthe warmth of the covers, but I was sitting up against the head-board, musing. I remember it wasraining, a downpour, and still we had left the window slightly open. a cold breeze found its waythrough the slit and along with the hazy light and the rhythmical sound of rain I soon entered a kindof trance. I have always found rainy days oddly calming, reassuring even; as if the homogeneity ofrain had the power of evening the world up. that’s why she startled me when she suddenly spokeup from under the bedclothes. I immediately forgot what I had been thinking about - I still don’tremember - and I turned to her with a questioning look.‘I said I don’t think I can commit suicide. do you know why?’it bugged me. her comment was odd enough in itself without my being slightly spaced out still. but I just said ‘no, why?’ in a calm tone, as if it were an ordinary conversation between two middle-agedwomen, discussing the trick to a chicken recipe.‘because I can’t make up my mind about it.’‘well, I very much doubt all people who commit suicide are 100% sure about what they are doing.’‘that’s not what I meant.’ her brow furrowed, not in disapproval of my failure to understand her, butsearching for the best way to explain. ‘what I’m trying to say is that I don’t have a clear opinion onit.’‘you mean a one-side-or-the-other kind of opinion? like with death penalty?’‘that’s it.’ she added, visibly pleased that I had finally grasped it. ‘I’m not sure if it’s a cowardly actor the bravest one. I mean, in a way, you could think of it as the ultimate escape-way: you feelmiserable, you can no longer cope with the world, your life is too painful… so instead of facing yourproblems you just take flight.’‘because to continue living is always the hard choice, the one you have to work out.’ as soon as thewords came out of my mouth I realised I had made a statement rather than a question. she merelynodded.‘then again it must take a huge amount of willpower to overcome your natural sense of self-preservation and end your life.’ she rushed the words as if exhaling a big gulp of air she’d beenholding for too long. her tone gave the impression she was debating to herself rather than talking tome. ‘have you ever tried to cut yourself or pierce your skin with a needle?’ this time she had lookeddirectly at me, like suddenly remembering I was there. I said I hadn’t.‘it doesn’t have to be anything serious. did you ever try that kid game where you pierced the upper
 
layer of your skin with a needle to make the illusion it was stuck magically to your palm?’ I shookmy head again. ‘no? well, if you had you would know just how difficult self-inflicted pain is. as ifthere was a kind of invisible barrier between your body and what tries to hurt it. your mind quicklyshoots off to show you exactly what sort of pain you would experience if you went any further thanimagining it. it feels so real it’s like you have already hurt yourself. I guess it’s an effective way toput you off doing silly things.’I was out of words. what could I add to that? instead I just stared at her hands with a deep-in-thought expression. she resumed her calm demeanor and exhaled softly.‘anyway. I was just trying to illustrate how difficult it must be to try to end your life, that’s all.’‘let me get this straight. you would not commit suicide because you don’t know if that’d make you acoward or a very brave person?’‘no. I merely can’t give a straight and clear opinion on it because both seem equally true to me. sountil I can stick to one of the two I won’t consider the possibility.’‘that’s… weird.’‘it’s more about the general idea of how you see things, how you arrange the world around you. Iwould feel I’m not being honest with myself making a ‘yes-or-no’ decision of something I don’t havea clear view of.’that afternoon we both smoked a cigarette in silence while we thought to ourselves - whether shewas still pondering the strange subject of suicide like me, I don’t know. the rain went on indefinitely,but we never broke our silence, until I ducked into the covers to take a nap.so these were the sort of things she spontaneously talked to me about. not run-of-the-mill stuff, I’dsay, but not all were so creepy. sometimes I wondered why I was with her, not because I felt ourrelationship had no meaning - which, in truth, I had never paused to consider - but purely out ofcuriosity. she was no model, no matter how beautiful her breasts were; and certainly the sex,though good, was not something to throw me into a frenzy. and to top it all neither of us seemedinclined to get any deeper into each other’s lives. which in turn got me thinking why she was stillseeing me. we had met by chance some time ago outside a mc donald’s in shibuya around 5.30am. we were both taking a bite after a whole night clubbing, waiting for the trains to run again, andwe had stopped in the only place open. she was with a friend, I had seen her drop the girl on anearby table, fast asleep. somehow she didn’t struck me as drunk, more like utterly exhausted fromdancing all night. she left her friend there with their bags - it was not likely anything would happento them what with only one person out of six awake in the place, that being me - and she wentaway. I found her downstairs taking a smoke - I don’t know why I followed her; something about herdetached manner and bemused smile pulled me up from my seat. or maybe I was just drawn to herbecause she was the only one in that place besides me that was not unconscious and I needed totalk to the living rather than the dead.
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