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"Safe in his bedroom afterwards, he had written (following half an hour's staring at the wall, which succeeded a bout of masturbation) "beauty is geometry." He had torn the paper up immediately, and felt foolish every time he remembered it, but still, there was something in it. Her gorgeousness was a matter of minor adjustments to a pattern, so that a breathtaking harmony resulted."