"... the lovers embrace until they merge into each other, becoming a single paralyzed being that slowly changes into a mineral and lives forever, withstanding the ravages of time.

Or else he imagined two lovers locked together for so long that they are overgrown by moss and turned into moss themselves; then someone accidentally steps on them, and (it was in an era when moss bloomed) like pollen they rise up into space, indescribably happy, as only a flight can be happy."