He explains that Maxted has drunk chromium cyanate, and as Maxted slowly " drowns " internally, Sheringham reveals that the'spongey . . . elastic waves lapping in a latex sea'appended with thunderous rhythms growing ever louder is an amplified recording of a kiss shared between Maxted and Sheringham's wife.
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Elastic waves that are large on the scale of an isolated object usually produce macroscopic vibrations sufficiently lacking in randomization that their oscillations are merely the repetitive exchange between ( elastic ) potential energy within the object and the kinetic energy of motion of the object as a whole.
