NPPF That'd be up the butt, Bob [was Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2 (tendril)]

[Don Corathers]

I think I 've figured this out, at some cost to my moral serenity: with no
"secondary homosexual complications" Kinbote is assuring us he's not Fleur's
back-door man, either.

The only definition of incest in MW10 is "sexual intercourse between persons
so closely related that they are forbidden to marry; also the statutory
crime of such a relationship." Under the technical virgin rule (similar but
at a slight remove from an argument once put forward by a recent president,
God bless 'im) , anal sex would not be, strictly speaking, sexual
intercourse, so Kinbote has to assure us on both counts. The act would be
secondary in two senses: the choice of orifice is a second option, and it is
a "secondary homosexual" undertaking because Charles, bending over young
Fleur, would be fantasizing about a boy.

Don

>
> > > > "...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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