The exceptional thing about him was <br />that in spite of all his loose living, <br />his vast sexual experience, <br />and the fact that usually <br />his attitude matched his age, <br />in spite of this there were moments— <br />extremely rare, of course—when he gave the impression <br />that his flesh was almost virginal. <br /> <br />His twenty-nine-year-old beauty, <br />so tested by sensual pleasure, <br />would sometimes strangely remind one <br />of a boy who, somewhat awkwardly, gives <br />his pure body to love for the first time.<br /><br />Constantine P. Cavafy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/days-of-1901/
