Status Updates From Ο πρώτος άνθρωπος

I know it’s only a manuscript but I can’t help wonder at what the finished autobiographical story would have been!

he knelt to pick them up and, raising his head, saw her parted knees under her skirt and her thighs in lace underwear. Till then he had never seen what a woman wore under her skirts, and this sudden vision made his mouth dry and caused him to tremble almost uncontrollably. A mystery was being revealed to him that, despite his many experiences, he would never resolve.

But, at nine, he could not disobey his grandmother, nor would he know how.