"Feel-U-Feel-Me" Novel by Stewart and Rebecka Dickson

Larry and Theo are back in Theo's "special back-room".

They have been making love. They are half-draped in an Afghan shawl. On the video wall are dreamy images of a tropical island. The room is bathed in video light. There is an addition to the room -- a wall-sized Feel-U-Feel-Me screen.

Theo gets up, leaving the shawl behind and touches the screen. It responds like rippling, luminescent water, only the surface is vertical.

"Oh, Larry," She says, "Let's turn on the Underground cyber-orgy."

Theo touches the computer. The video walls come to life with a mixture of the images Gya Mon and Ben were each seeing earlier -- a mix of live video and 3-D computer-generated avatars -- human figures engaged in Tantric CyberSex.

The sound of the Tantric chant fills the room.

The Feel-U-Feel-Me wall has also come alive with the shapes of dozens of nude bodies moving in their global tantric cyber-dance.

Theo touches the Feel-U-Feel-Me wall and gently moves her hand over it in a light, caressing fashion. The bodies in the wall respond to her touch -- here and there another hand forms in a mutual caress.

Gradually, Theo moves closer, presses her body against the wall and becomes drawn into it -- into the global tantric cyber-dance.

Larry reacts with alarm. "Theo... Theo, stop it. I think you are getting addicted to this thing." He makes his way over to her, takes her arm and pulls her away from the wall. "Theo, listen to me. I've got to talk to you."

Theo sighs sadly, "What do you need, Larry?"

"I need to tell you something," He says.

"Yes, my love," Theo says breathlessly as she watches the undulating bodies in the wall.

Larry says insistently, "Theo, I'm getting a transfer."

"Well, we always knew this was a possibility," Theo says, "Grants run out, projects finish or fizzle..." Her voice trails off...

"Theo," Larry announces, "I've been chosen to go to the Mars Project."

Theo's attention is really on him now. "Mars Project! On the Planet Mars?!"

Larry explains, "Ever since Steve built that Fell-U-Feel-Me device for me I've suddenly been able to express and validate ideas I've always had, but I've never been able to get anyone to understand before. I'm "seeing" math in three dimensions, and I can now explain it in terms other people are finally understanding! And I'm understanding everyone else. Steve has opened a whole new world for me. My career is really taking off Theo!"

"I never realized how this would change your life," Theo says. "Of course it does. I can't imagine what it would be like to suddenly 'see' at the age of 30."

Larry says, "I know we'll miss each other, Theo, but I've always dreamed of this, I..."

Theo interrupts, "Larry, I'm so happy for you. They don't send just anyone up there. Wow! This is great! Oh my gosh, when are you going?"

"Oh, it will take some time," Larry admits, "It's a Government project, you know. You're not upset?"

"Well, honey," Theo says, "You know I'm going to miss you, but, well, we never really did have that much in common. It's been fun and everything." Coyly, she continues, "And the sex has been great... but this is really important. Your career is going to soar!"

Larry says, "Thank you, Theo. It's really the best thing for me."

"Well honey, I have some news too." Theo says, "I was, I mean, you were such a big hit at the Cyber Conference that I got the bid to have it in Chicago in 4 years. So really, the next 4 years are going to be nuts for me. Grant writing, fund raising, site planning. Aaaaaaaaaaaa! But Larry, this is my dream come true."

Theo looks again back toward the Feel-U-Feel-Me Screen, and gently tugs Larry in that direction. "Larry, could we celebrate?"

Larry holds back, "Well... I'm a little spooked by that thing. It's like passing into another dimension. I don't mean that figuratively, either. It's really weird. Every time I use it, I feel like I'm touching other people's consciousness."

Theo wonders, "It's not just when we make love on it?"

"No," Larry says, "It's got nothing to do with orgasms. Well, at first I thought that 's what was going on, but at work, I'm doing mathematical research. I've never been aroused by math before."

Theo smiles seductively, kisses Larry and begins to run her hands over his back and down his buttocks. "Well, I have a confession. I've been feeling it too, but I was attributing it to the great sex... This thing is mind-blowing... I thought it was mind and body overload."

"No," Larry says, "There's definitely more to it than that. There's a feeling of universal one-ness."

Theo kisses him again, pulling him toward the screen. "Come, be one with me..."

They have reached the screen. Theo gently presses her body against the screen and it begins to engulf her. Larry feels the screen beginning to engulf him as well, beginning with his arms, where Theo is holding him. He turns himself and his back sinks into the screen.

It is like passing through the surface of a liquid which is alive within. Shapes of naked bodies slide gently across his own. As he moves deeper into the screen, the sensation surrounds him. Like a gentle massage over ever inch of his body at once, he can barely distingush separate bodies, for they seem to tumble softly over him one after another.

The feeling is deep as well. He can feel the presence of bodies behind those in contact with him. He feels he is touching the souls behind the bodies. He becomes intensely aroused. He pulls Theo to himself and presses his face against her shoulder. His hand goes to her breast. He moves his mouth down to her nipple. Tasting her flesh, he plays his tongue over her skin.