his reports were , at first , about them : describing them with a geographers eye : the rise of her chest , the bend and curve and play of flesh around hip and legs , legs like hilly islands or skinny peninsulas or supple beeches swaying in a peppy windin full description : the taste of their breasts , the hunger of their lips , the yielding of their womanly mouths , the swimming up and down their backs and backsides and the tickling of their feetbut he knew more , knew what it was he was charged to discover , and so he set about as if his own body was the quill : faithful to this reportage : deeply would he plunge within her , testing her , finding out how she received him , what it was she wanted to have from himwas it terror , fear , submission , a moment of blind servitude or freedom , liberation , redemptionhappiness ?