a blend of the two types, a Dionian-Uranian? Or what, . . . or what not? For that something of a special sexual attitude, hidden, instinctive, was maintained by him, no matter what might be the outward conduct of his life—this I could not help believing, at least at times.
Uranian? Similisexual? Homosexual? Dionian?
Profound and often all too oppressive, even terrible, can be the significance of those cold psychic-sexual terms to the man who . . . . "knows." To the man who "knows!" Even more terrible to those who understand them not, may be the human natures of which they are but new and clumsy technical symbols, the mere labels of psychiatric study, within a few decades of medical explorers.
What, then, was my new friend?
I could not determine! The more I reflected, the less I perceived. It is so easy to be deceived by just such a mingling of psychic and physic and temperamental traits; easy to dismiss too readily the counterbalancing qualities. I had learned that much. Long before now, I had found it
