When desire is renounced

Even that renunciatory high ground of male sexlessness has been strewn with psychic land mines.

In fact, in each story the man simply fails to desire at all. Sentimental Tommy desperately desires to feel desire; confusingly counterfeits a desire for somebody and, with all the best intentions, finally drives her mad. John
He does not even know that desire is absent from his life, nor that the woman desires him,until after she has died from his obtuseness