““I gained great pleasure from my body back then. I gave great pleasure with it, too, if you know what I mean.” “I do,” Aomame said. “And are you enjoying yours?” “Now and then,” Aomame said. “Now and then may not be enough,” the dowager said, lying facedown again. “You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. Enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can’t do it anymore.” Aomame recalled the night before. Her anus still retained a slight feeling of having been penetrated. Would memories of this actually warm her body in old age?””