For Dieter.

Some readers have informed me that the tone of the original introduction to this post came across as judgmental. While this was not my intent, I am highly passionate in my belief that my interpretation of Kier's words from the fourth appendix are a 100% valid and intentional translation as devised by the writers.

Nevertheless, the derivation of meaning from solemn scripture is a highly personal and individual pursuit. I do not dismiss any other's translation as invalid, nor do I intend to bedevil anyone through undesired criticism of their deeply held beliefs.

My motto is Illumination Above Beyond All, and that includes each of you. With that said, here is my personal breakdown of Appendix IV: Chapter 1:

"I was not born into this world alone. The lodgings of my mother's womb I shared with another; a twin brother who was called Dieter."

Kier is personifying his penis which has been a part of him since his development in the womb. He thinks of it, or at least alludes to it, as his brother.

"In infancy, he was my bosom friend, but as we blossomed into boyhood, he beseeched me to take to the wood with him to live as paupers. My love for my twin unbalancing my judgment, I acceded and we ventured into the wood towards... Woe's Hollow."

As Kier approached puberty, he started getting horny, and this drove him to seek solitude in the woods.

"He always crept like this, at this hour. Once concealed by flora, my brother unfastened himself."

Kier describes having "morning wood" (waking up with an erection). His pubic hair usually covered his shaft, but on this occasion, it stood erect.

"The din of his fervor fell strangely into concert with the music of the wood, and for a moment I could not tell the two apart. His every thrust found rhythm with the trill of the crickets, and the moaning of the wind, and the snowfalls yearly thaw."

As he started to fap, he observed how the rhythm of his slapping flesh became a metronome and fell into concert with the music of nature around him.

"Dieter became, on that night, an instrument of nature, and nature player Dieter with elegance. I had no choice but to listen as he spilt his lineage upon the soil."

Kier compares the sound of himself masturbating to a musical instrument playing in tune with the great chorus of nature. He begins to disassociate, and imagines himself as a member of the audience rather than as a performer in this concert.

"Dieter lay unwashed in his bedroll, though the hollow's pool was primed for bathing. We ate of the hare we'd caught, and told each other rhyming jokes till our gullets ached."

As Kier camped in the woods, he acknowledged that he felt unclean from playing with his willie. He recited some dirty limericks to himself as he ate, and he found them both funny and arousing.

"But at last, the thought tickling my throat emerged. 'We must return to Father' I said. 'But I promise to look after you in the ether mill.'"

He started to feel guilty for his time alone, and thought about returning home to his Father, but planned to resume his dalliance when he was next alone in the ether mill.

"When at last a sound came from him, it was a bewailing whimper. He believed, I suppose, that we'd be woodland paupers forever."

Kier began masturbating furiously.

"I was looking at him when his eye came out. It popped from the socket, driven by a sudden torrent of pus from his skull."

He describes, the head (glans) of his penis emerging from his foreskin as he watched. Suddenly, he came for the first time.

"And he reached up to grasp at his hair, which was suddenly moss that tore easily from his bleeding scalp."

After climax, the blood quickly drained from his shaft, and it fell back toward his pubes. Kier may have torn out some pubes, though he may just be describing his jism here.

"And as the pus from his eye thickened into sap, I turned from my gargling brother and walked to the pool of the hollow where I knew the waterfall would drown out my brother's cries."

As the jism began to dry, it thickened and got crusty. He walked toward the waterfall so he could wash up.

"And it was here that I first encountered the temper Woe, a gaunt bride, half the height of a natural woman."

Just as Kier has personified his penis, he is now personifying the guilt from his post-nut clarity. He is likely staring at his own reflection in the pool.

"She spoke to me directly from her eyes and said, 'This is your doing. You suffered his wantonness. Now he's no one's brother. Only chao's whore.'"

Kier is recognizing that his relationship with his penis has been forever changed.

"The End"

The End. Congratulations, you just experienced the entire hero's journey in the story of a young boy getting off for the first time.