Paloma (from 'Light and Dark') - Sex Stories

Paloma (from 'Light and Dark')

“ People can commit many sins. But the most grievous sins of all are the sins of not knowing your true self, and even worse, of fearing it. ” Dr Sandor Kardos Part One: Dr Kardos The unexpected arrival, nine months previously, of an itinerant Hungarian psychologist had produced an unfamiliar mélange of suspicion and curiosity among the inhabitants of Puente de Almas, a relatively small, off-the-beaten-track town nestling discreetly in the picturesque folds and foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees to the north-west of Jaca, in the province of Aragon. In spite of this, the enigmatic Dr Sandor Kardos had quickly managed to secure for himself comfortable rooms, including both living space and a surgery, above a rustic, but thriving, craft shop which specialised in the production and sale of all manner of finely-crafted religious artefacts. It offered a particular speciality by way of the production and sale of exquisitely embellished statuettes of the Blessed Virgin (both with and without child). Almost every home in the town and outlying villages contained at least one item or icon which had been obtained from ‘La Casa Sagrada de Madura’, making the sombre and religiously devout proprietor, Don Francisco Farsante, one of the wealthiest, and hence most respected, men in the region. From the outset there had been considerable doubt as to whether Dr Kardos could, in fact, truly claim to hold that esteemed title. He was, beyond doubt, one of the brightest students of his generation in ...

... Hungary, and spoke several European languages fluently. Having graduated with distinction from the prestigious Semmelweis University in Budapest, where he had earned something of an exotic reputation for himself as a bohemian and, some said, ‘dangerous’ free-thinker, he embarked upon a doctoral thesis under the tutelage of Professor Ernst Nagy, who was regarded by many as the leading figure in the field of clinical and experimental psychology in eastern Europe at that time. As the months passed, however, the simmering personal and academic differences between the two men eventually boiled over, and their already turbulent relationship strained itself beyond breaking point. In addition to his inability to suffer anyone, let alone fools, gladly, Professor Nagy was possessed of an unyielding conservatism in all things, including his fiercely religious beliefs, which led to several bitter and, some alleged, physical, confrontations between them. Although the precise nature of the matter which precipitated the final breakdown of their relationship was never fully revealed, it was never really in any doubt that it was Professor Nagy’s point-blank refusal to sanction some of Kardos’s allegedly highly controversial experimental techniques and proposed therapeutic approach (which Kardos saw as indispensable to proving his doctoral thesis) which heralded the end of Kardos’s ambitions of securing his doctorate at Semmelweis, and led to him departing from the university under something ...