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- The Cabin - Notes
Copyright Abrank 2010 June
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- These are the authors notes to the story
available here. Please read
the story before reading the notes.
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- Warning! This story might contain
activities that might not be suitable in selfbondage. Please
play safe.
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- The Cabin - Notes
- Abrank
2010 June
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- First let me, as the author, dissociate
myself from any of the views expressed by any of the characters
in the story or by the narrator. The story is purely a work of
fiction.
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- As author, I had far more ideas about
the characters and the story than could be included in the short
story. A few of them are outlined below, together with some additional
text and explanations.
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- The story is superficially once of bondage,
slavery and sex. It was originally intended as posing a moral
dilemma: should the narrator keep his sworn word to Adam, or
do what was best for himself, or what was best for Eve, or what
was legally correct? But the choices, initially clear, became
entangled with external circumstances as the story evolved.
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- As explained in the story, Adam was a
Christian fundamentalist who believed that every word in the
bible was true. He held a low opinion of women, believing that
that were responsible for mankind’s fall from grace.
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- I do not know why Adam held these beliefs
or what his full history is. The bible does not say that the
fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was an apple. Instead the fruit
was almost certainly a fig. Early western commentators on this
biblical story could not resist the Latin pun which derived from
malum meaning both apple and evil. Since Adam followed this tradition,
his beliefs must have derived from his upbringing.
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- What I do know about Adam’s history
is that he grew up in one of the Southern States, possibly South
Carolina. He inherited the cabin, the land and the gold in the
safe from his grandfather.
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- I do not know how Adam first met Eve;
whether he enslaved her or she willingly became his slave. But
it is likely that Adam knew of Eve before they met, and that
he knew she had been born soon after his own daughter died. During
their relationship Adam clearly affected Eve’s mind and
her view of reality.
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- Adam did Eve’s piercings himself,
using the Internet computer at the town library to learn how
to do them and ordering the supplies online. He did the nipple
piercings first intending to use the nipple rings for additional
bondage, and later did the tongue piercing to increase his sexual
satisfaction. Eve neither welcomed nor resisted the piercings,
merely accepting them. She regarded the pain as part of her just
punishment. I think that Adam gave her some spurious reasons
why she should be pierced, but do not know what they were.
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- Adam had unconventional views about sex.
He thought vaginal penetration was a sin if not sanctified by
marriage, and he had never married Eve. He was tempted once or
twice to engage in intercourse, but resisted the temptation.
He thought that sodomy was a greater sin and was never tempted
to try it. But he thought that oral sex was not forbidden and
therefore not a sin. He regarded masturbation as a sin and never
indulged in it himself. When he caught Eve masturbating with
her hands he chained her arms up behind her back both as a preventative
measure and as a punishment. When she learned to masturbate with
her feet he purchased the steel chastity belt. After locking
the chastity belt on her he released her arms, but something
bad happened, I’m not sure what, and he locked her arms
permanently back up behind her.
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- Adam thought that the ideal state was
life in the Garden of Eden before the Fall. In that state nudity
was normal, which is why he never permitted Eve to be clothed
and why he himself went undressed in the cabin. It is also why
he chose to live in isolation, away from civilization, and away
from other people who he regarded as doomed sinners.
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- Eve, who accepted Adam’s views on
almost everything, was not ashamed of nudity. She was not ashamed
of anything except having eaten an apple from the Tree of Knowledge.
Whether she ever ate a real apple from a living tree is unclear,
but it is certain that Adam planted the biblical idea in her
mind along with the false memories and associated guilt.
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- The Old Testament permitted slavery and
Adam thought it was morally right to keep Eve as a slave for
his sexual needs. Although he kept her as a prisoner and used
her for his own purposes, he truly loved her and took care of
her. He fed her dog food for several reasons; partly to reduce
costs, partly to degrade her, and partly out of laziness since
he already had to buy food for his dog and he didn’t like
to cook. But he was concerned for her health and tried to balance
her diet by occasionally including fruit and ground up vitamins.
As her master he regarded it his duty to keep her healthy.
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- Eve was thin because Adam regarded this
as a much healthier, and perhaps holier, state than being overweight.
He knew that thin people live longer and have fewer health problems.
He also thought that both the body and the mind benefitted from
occasional periods of starvation,
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- Adam himself was not thin, he enjoyed
food and drink too much, but he was not fat either. He was too
lazy to cook and regarded it as women’s work. Although he
would have liked Eve to cook for him, he thought it more desirable
to keep her in restrictive bondage.
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- The only person Adam talked to, apart
from Eve, was the narrator whom he considered as one of the very
few people who were not sinners. He told Eve about the narrator,
which is why she believed him about Adams death when she realized
who he was, and why she was willing to be owned by him.
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- The narrator is a little like a chameleon;
tending to agree with those around him and adopting their opinions.
Once he realized that Adam regarded something as improper, such
as extra-marital sex, the narrator would never admit to doing
it.
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- The cabin is isolated from civilization
and has no electricity. But it does have running water. I do
not know what the source of the water is. Since the cabin is
so isolated it is unlikely that it has city water. It could have
a well that is hand pumped to store water in a cistern, although
the pump handle was not mentioned. The most likely source is
a stream or spring uphill from the cabin. The sewage system would
be a septic tank or field, perhaps underlying the cleared area
in front of the cabin.
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- There are hints throughout the story that
there is a supernatural level beneath the obvious reality. Adam
mentions that Eve has powers. Eve thinks she caused Adams death,
and the narrator suspects that she caused the misfortunes that
befell him (losing his job and his house) so that he would look
after her in the cabin. Adam warned the narrator about keeping
Eve’s chain secured at all times, and she took great interest
in it and had a strange look when it was momentarily loose on
the floor. That moment marked the beginning of the narrator’s
troubles.
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- There are hints that the powers are not
good ones. The narrator, who is a bank teller, automatically
counted the money he found in the cabin and found it to total
616 dollars. 616 is the Number of the Beast and is associated
with the Devil. This number has textual support that gives it
an earlier origin than the more commonly accepted number 666.
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- The bondage position of Eve is also a
clue. Given that ‘prayer’ is good, then ‘reverse
prayer’ must surely be the opposite of good, that is, evil.
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- These hints are no more than hints. When
I realized the story was developing into a supernatural one I
stopped and deleted a conversation that made it more explicit.
The deleted conversation was:
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- “Why did Adam chain your arms
up like this?”
- “Adam said that with my arms free
I have strange powers. He was afraid of them so he always kept
my arms chained.”
- “What kind of powers?”
- “I don’t know, but he was
very much afraid of them.”
- “When Adam went into town to get
a new dog, did he do anything that you didn’t want him to
do?”
- “That morning, for the first time,
he fed me without me milking him. He said that I wouldn’t
have to milk him every day. I couldn’t understand that,
he liked to have me milk him and I liked to do it. My feelings
were hurt.”
- I suddenly became worried, thinking
of the disasters that had happened to me since I met Eve. She
seemed to have powers beyond my comprehension. Adam too had been
afraid, and had warned me about her. He had said she had powers,
and had advised me to always keep her chained. The one time I
let her chain loose she had looked at me with a strange expression,
and a series of disasters had then befallen me. Coincidence?
Probably, but I was definitely worried.
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- In chapter 6 Eve learns that the name
of the sweet smelling flower is a rose, and remarks that it is
a nice name. Unlike Shakespeare’s “a rose by any other
name would smell as sweet” Eve’s remark hints that
names might be important.
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- Eve’s name is derived from the Hebrew
and means ‘life.’ She gives life to the rose, and perhaps
her name makes it less likely she was the cause of Adam’s
death. Adam, however, told Eve that her name was derived from
the word ‘evil’. He also told her that his own name
was derived from the word ‘adamant’ meaning ‘strong’.
Adam did not claim external support for these derivations, but
used them to, as he would say, put Eve in her place.
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- The name Adam means earth or red, perhaps
referring to the reddish colored earth of the Garden of Eden.
In the story the cabin sits at the edge of a clearing of reddish
earth.
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- The narrator’s first name is Alex
which means ‘defender or protector of mankind.’ In
a possible continuation of the story Alex would keep Eve permanently
bound in order to suppress her powers and so protect mankind.
His would be a difficult job; he would have to control and punish
her, but not ‘hurt her feelings’ as Adam had done.
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- As for whether, in the present story,
the supernatural element is real or not, and what happens after
the story ends, these are things for the reader to decide.
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The author welcomes comments
and may be contacted at: abraXXnk@gmail.com
- (Delete the two Xs before sending,
they are included as an antispam device)
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