Let lips do what hands do
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Even if it were possible, a return to things as they were does not feel like much of a choice. More like surrender, like succumbing to a tide that would sweep him back into that numbing sea of alienation in which he has been drowning these last weeks. But if not that, then what?
Nicolò says nothing, just watches Yusuf. Nicolò’s eyes look like a sea too, Yusuf thinks, but not a sea for drowning.
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Yusuf and Nicolò die, and kill each other, and nothing changes. Until it does.
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- Part 1 of Let lips do what hands do
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“You are too kind,” Nicolò says, and it does not sound like polite acquiescence. It sounds like defeat, but not the defeat of a vanquished enemy. No, not defeat. It sounds like the recognition of something too great, too profound to be denied, like the movement of the sun or the breaking of a wave. Which is madness. He says it as though Yusuf’s willingness to release him from his obvious discomfort is some magnificent act of mercy when in truth Yusuf simply cannot stand to see him distraught.
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After leaving Jerusalem, Nicolò and Yusuf roam the countryside trading stories, attempting to work out what is edible, dealing with their respective pasts and collective future, and falling in love, not necessarily in that order.
This is a sequel to 'Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand', but there is enough of a recap at the beginning that you can dive right in here if you prefer.
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- Part 2 of Let lips do what hands do