so , over the next two hours , and contrasted with their frenzied lust-filled entry into the apartment , they joined in a slow , methodical , and exquisitely gentle and tender and solicitous uniting , every touch all the more impassioned for its attention to pleasing the other , every act and word and gesture fueled by the single goal of fusing their bodies into a physical manifestation of the perfection each saw in the other , the perfection they saw in their love .