DISINTEGRATION

The bodies of lovers are distant, leaning away from each other, connected at opposing poles. Great love brings great entropy, great decay, a vast emptiness after ecstasy, for, as Gallen wrote, "post coitum omne animal triste est". What remains is the sorrow of bodily solitude, the small death after great ecstasy, the great loneliness after orgasm. "La grande mort après la petite mort" - this is what the French call it, the great death following the little death, sorrow after the re-division of a once-united Platonic body.