NPPF Canto 1 Incest Motif

[jbor]

on 29/7/03 4:27 AM, s~Z wrote:

> (161) But like some lad forced by a wench
> (162) With his pure tongue her abject thirst to quench,
> (163) I was corrupted, terrified allured,
[...]
> (166) The wonder lingers and the shame remains.

This is a simile. It refers to a kiss between "some lad" (NB "some") and "a
wench" (that is, 1. girl or young woman  2. prostitute), and Shade uses it
to describe his moments of "sublime" blackness in those fits, what the
doctor had called merely "growing pains" in line 165.

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