Within a Sky Full of Earth

ONE
FOR A MAN of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well. On Thursday afternoons he drives to Green Point. Punctually at two p.m. he presses the buzzer an the entrance of Windsor Mansions, speaks his name, and enters. Waiting for him at the door No. 113 is Soraya. He goes straight through to the bedroom, which is pleasant-smelling and softly lit, and undresses. Soraya emerges from the bathroom, drops her robe, slides into bed beside him. 'Have you missed me?' she asks. 'I miss you all the time,' he replies. He strokes her honey-brown body, unmarked by the sun; he stretches her out, kisses her breasts; they make love.
the first paragraph of Disgrace by the Nobel Prize, J. M. Coetzee
Published in 1999 by PENGUIN BOOKS

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