this wixelor knew from her dreams , which were always suffused with the feverish breathlessness of carnal excess , but also from the dreams of many a linner who had sought her out for whatever reason and had ended up rolling on the hard black rock with a woman whose startling obesity was rendered even more fearsome by the fact that , to be able to indulge in her fixation without a moments loss , she never wore a stitch of clothing , plodding about like an extra-norienic beast in heat .