But like so many difficult, doomed relationships, the man s affair with the wave has its exquisite rewards. She fills his dark corridors with sun. Lovemaking with his glistening houseguest is continual. Her hands are everywhere, and the sun, who cannot stop watching, scandalizes the stars when they see the sun leave the apartment late. Literally out of her element, the wave grows frustrated, bitter and furious.
Sex becomes brutal, violent and humiliating.
At night her raucous groans disturb the neighbors. She howls out recriminations. By winter, in Paz s story, the man is bored with the wave. He rekindles an old attachment. Enraged, the wave becomes charged with electricity, and everything she touches turns to ash.