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?
>
> I believe it means that since she was his sister - not his brother - that
there
> was neither incestual - nor homosexual - temptation for Charles.
>
> David Morris


I think it's a little more subtle than that. The structure of the sentence
indicates that the two possible complications that occur after the "but" are
conditions that *could* exist between Charles and someone he is "fond of...
as of a sister," but they don't. Now, he couldn't really indulge in incest
with Fleur because she's not really his sister, but since he thinks of her
as one, he might think of sex with her as incestuous (especially since he's
happy to have any excuse not to go to bed with her). But what the devil are
"secondary homosexual complications," and how can homosexual complications
of any kind exist between a male and female, whether they think of each
other as siblings or not? Does "secondary" have some special meaning here?
Please spell it out for me. I'm a country boy.

Don

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