NPPF Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2 (tendril)

[Don Corathers]

> "...as a sister but with no soft shadow of incest or secondary
> homosexual complications.


What does that mean, "secondary homosexual complications"? Anybody?

Don
 
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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.
>