He remembered the testimonies of those who had hanged themselves and been saved at the last minute: they all spoke of the unexpected orgasm they felt after the jolt of falling into emptiness. They all said it was tens of times more powerful than the supreme spasm of mating, and those who inhaled ether or injected morphine described the incomparable pleasure, surpassing even drugs, of those moments hanging in the noose, their sex erect and pumping thin jets of hot sperm.
