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Excerpt from Masters of The Vortex, by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. It is the 7th and final book of his classic Lensman series:

'QX, Joanie, and thanks. I've been wanting to do this more than I ever wanted anything before in my life. But not holding hands, this time. Heart to heart and cheek to cheek.'

'Check - the closer the better.'

They embraced, and again mind flowed into mind; this time with no thought of withholding or reserve on either side. Smoothly effortlessly, the two essential beings merged, each fitting it's tiniest remotest members into the the deepest, ordinarily most inaccessible recesses of the other; fusing as quickly as delicately and as throughly as two drops of water coalescing into one.

In that supremely intimate fusion, that ultimate union of line and plane and cellule, each mind was revelated completly to the other; a revealment which no outside should expect to share.