THE body can make us shiver, but also shake, like the sea.

I recall a passage in Lady Chatterley’s Lover when Lady Chatterley experiences the mystery of passion in sex. In the passionate embrace of her lover, “…it seemed she was like the sea, nothing but dark waves rising and heaving, heaving with a great swell.”

“Oh, and far down inside her the deeps parted and rolled asunder, in long, fair-travelling billows, as the plunger went dee