Wild Desire
Listening to it with your eyes closed, thought Kate, was the next best thing to sex.
She wasn’t quite sure at what point she realised it was sex. Somehow, her imagination had run riot and had interfered with the reality of what she was hearing. Nabucco, the tale of banishment from Israel, had become something else in her mind. The heart-rending, sometimes mournful, sometimes shudderingly climactic music had overtaken her senses and in her mind the virgins and the Hebrews were not mourning the loss of their homeland but were playing an elaborate courting ritual. Their sad voices, rising to a defiant crescendo, became instead the actual act of sex; quiet foreplay, gentle cajoling, sudden, viol