Michael’s mouth, even after finding Nirvana several times in Nikita’s arms, rested on her bare chest as his lips continued nuzzling the woman’s breasts.

Well, it's always nice when your body part can find Nirvana...

Nikita’s antennas raised with his timorous statements

...except when it's with a bug.

I like the part where Nirvana can be found more than once. Unless you are in a CD store, flipping through the Ns, I am thinking Nirvana is a one-time dealie.

So bodhisatvas don't get another go round? Or do they just stay in Nirvana here?

I think it would really blow to become one with the universe and then have to start all over again with being a cockroach.

I would think that bodhisattvas can reach Nirvana again. . . if they choose to.

Okay, I've just remembered that I am wrong.

I don't think that bodhisattvas become extinguished and then return, I think that they get to the point where they will be at Nirvana but are not extinguished yet and say, "wait, there is still more suffering in this world, I cannot leave yet" or something and don't do it. So they can probably get to that point any number of times but not go over.

Unless, I'm wrong again of course. Let me drink my tea and go find my basic book of Buddhism and get back to you guys.

So,

The Teaching of Buddha

the little book I got at the Buddhist temple during my niece's welcome ceremony (I can no longer remember if that is what it was called) and produced by the Society of the Promotion of Buddha) doesn't really answer the question with a nice clear definition of a bodhisattva.

I think it would really blow to become one with the universe and then have to start all over again with being a cockroach.

That's not how bodhisatvas work. Although, I suppose, some might, if it's cockroaches they wanted to teach.

Wait, wait --

Michael’s mouth, [...], rested on her bare chest as his lips continued nuzzling the woman’s breasts.

I would have thought that 'lips' are an integral part of 'mouth' at least on most normal faces.

I flashed on a shudderingly horrible picture of his face planted in between her breasts, with his lips roaming around separately like some disembodied hand from a horror movie, trying to find some nipple. I'm glad you wondered about those roaming lips too. I thought I was the only one.