NPPF Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2 (tendril)
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 2 13:43:11 CDT 2003
"...as a sister but with no soft shadow of incest or secondary
homosexual complications. She had a small pale face with prominent cheek
bones, luminous eyes, and curly dark hair. It was rumored that after
going about with a porcelain cup and Cinderella's slipper for months,
the society sculpture and poet Arnor had found in her ... Lilith Calling
Back Adam ...
Line 80 my bed room PF.108
Van could not recollect whose picture it was that he had in mind, but
thought it might be attributed to Michelangelo de Caravaggio in his
youth. It was an oil on unframed canvas depicting two misbehaving nudes,
boy and girl, in an ivied or vined grotto or near a small waterfall
overhung with bronz-tinted with dark, emerald leaves, and great bunches
of translucent grapes, the shadows and limpid reflections of fruit and
foliage blending magically with veined flesh.
Anyway (this may be purely stylistic transition), he felt himself
transferred into that forbidden masterpiece, one afternoon, when
everybody had gone to Brantome, and Ada and he were sunbathing on the
brink of the Cascade in the larch plantation of Ardis Park, and his
nymphet had bent over him and his detailed desire. Her long straight
hair that seemed of a uniform bluish black in the shade now revealed, in
the gem-like sun, strains of deep auburn alternating with dark amber in
lanky strands which clothed her hollowed cheek or were gracefully cleft
by her raised ivory shoulder.
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