it had happened because they had been imagined : this the intensity of the moment : it was , indeed , embracing within which , their embrace , they slipped into this intensity and it slipped out and over them : communed them : into communion the sharpest , most searing , clearly delimited , noted in every conceivable detail was eachs individuality : never so aware had she been of him as not her , and he of her : it was the magnificence of the presence of the others singular breathing ah , they had worked in all their phase to find the common breath : in courting to be in harmony with the general breathing ; in coupling , with the others breath : spousal ; in communing , with that of the embrace , again , the breath of ages now , it is totally other , a different direction no , wrong words , inept imagery : they were living the spiraling : the multi-dimensional presence of one another : but most intensely of this other : he as individual in the sense of idiosyncratic : the misshapen tooth , the outright ugly scrunch of her left pinkie toe , the buffoonish eye-brows which puffed and fluffed , the checker-board spots on hands , the ransacking hordes of moles and skin tears : no longer were they applying cosmetics : not of removal or coverage they just were allowing their bodies to happen , to erupt , to molt : for it was in such a moment of insightful laughter at each other , at ones self , that they realized how minutely different each was from the other it was the glory of decay , the festooning of infirmities , the celebration of diminishment : which was , so they mutually and simultaneously grasped , the spiralings code : reading on their bodies the message of their transit , of the next step , not stopping to bother with precise words : `` ascension ? ''