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"Wow! is right!" said Natalia, "and I am glad for you. That is wonderful."
"Except you don't know the half of it yet," I said, "nor would you likely guess what happened deep within, what changed the world for me in a way I never thought possible."
"And what might that be?" she asked.
"I made a discovery," I replied, "a real scientific discovery."
"With Jill?"
"No, because of Jill. I discovered a scientific basis for quantifying love."
"That's getting interesting," said Natalia.
"No, profound, would be a better word," I replied.
"Did you say that something profound happened that night?" she said and began to grin from ear to ear.
"No, Natalia, not just that night. It lasted for three days."
"Wow, you had a three day sexual encounter! Is that what you are saying? That must be a world-record. No, that's nothing less than a galactic endurance record, I would say," she said and continued grinning.
"No, Natalia! It's the other way around," I said and began to grin too. "That part didn't last half an hour, probably mush less. It was interesting and nice, but it really didn't measure up."
"So, what was it then, James, that lasted for three days?"
"Can't you guess? I was in a tizzy for three whole days. I was floating on air. I was feeling all fuzzy inside. This fuzzy tizzy felt rich, wonderful, and bright. Compared to that, those twenty minutes of sexual intimacies didn't amount to much. I find this contrast amazing, don't you? For three thousand years we've divided the whole of humanity along sexual lines. Sexual division goes deeper and is more universal than any other form of division we've invented. Then, when one finally takes this horrendous step and tests those axioms that have divided the whole world, and one really dares to look for the truth, there isn't much there to crow about."
"It took you that long to figure this out?" she said and kept on grinning.
"It should have been obvious," I said. "The fact is, one really has to work at it to stretch this sex ecstasy out for twenty minutes, and I don't think I am alone in this predicament. I certain have never met anyone who could stretch it out for three days on end. In contrast to that, this fuzzy tizzy that seemed like heaven happened all on its own. I didn't have to do anything for it. To the contrary, it simply wouldn't fade away. It lasted for three days, and hasn't stopped, really. Doesn't that tell you something about where love really lies? This fuzzy tizzy still continues to some degree. I think this contrast makes it pretty clear what is really of value."
"And you attribute it all to Jill?" she asked.
"In a way, yes. Sure, Jill had something to do with that. It took me half a minute when I first met her, to realize that, wow, there is somebody home here. We talked only for three hours after that and had the loveliest dialog. It seemed as though we spoke for centuries."
"I remember that it was something like that when we first met," said Natalia. "I can still remember the fuzzy tizzy days."
"I think it was in Kiev where we met, a long time ago, wasn't it?" I asked.
"Except we never had a single sexual encounter until we got here on this ship," said Natalia. She no longer smiled. "I had dreamed about it, back then, but it never came to be. It looks now that we didn't miss that much. I kind of figured that over the years."
"Guess what was missing when Jill and I had our intimacies," I said to her and couldn't help a smile. "You won't believe this," I said. "I missed our dialogs. I missed the ideas we had shared and enriched one-another with. I was too quiet. Still, I'm glad it happened. I see now that a barrier was put out of the way."
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