Livre d'Or

Some of what bothers me is in much the same category as incest; they are taboo, in the most literal sense.

Actaully, I have a bit of a rant about the way the human brain recognises which partners are taboo in that sense - which I'm fairly sure is a word/rule mechanism, similar to that which Steven Pinker proposes for verb evolution - and where that breaks down, in that there is a mechanism there which to my mind would be worth understanding, which nobody seems to have done any professional work on, and which is damn near impossible to talk about without the preconceptions of the language forcing it in the direction of being about abusive relationships.

At some point, hopefully, I will be able to overcome the degree to which the subject is taboo and resistant to thinking about enough to do something with this in fiction.