((She had extremely fair skin:1.5)), almost translucent, like the finest porcelain. Her pale blond hair formed a striking contrast with her complexion, making her complexion appear almost luminescent in the summer sunlight. But that was still nothing compared to her tan, which had left dark, (distinct marks on her skin:1.5), . Key areas, such as her shoulders, décolletage, and inner thighs, ((were extremely tanned:1.5)), so dark they appeared black, (even darker than the olive skin of an African woman with the darkest and most intense complexion:1.5), ., ((This astonishing contrast between the pale and tanned parts of her skin created a strange effect:1.5)), as if she were composed of two different people, one diaphanous woman with almost white hair, and another, almost black in the sun. She looked like an artifact, an "object" that had been worked and sculpted by the sun itself. This made her beautiful, but with a beauty that sometimes bordered on the grotesque, even the deformed. Her slender, ((slim figure was highlighted by the play of contrasts between the light and dark parts of her skin:1.5)), . Her curves stood out with an almost pathological clarity, as if every muscle, every tendon had been modeled by a demiurgic hand. The light played on the contours and hollows of her body, casting deep shadows that highlighted the most intimate details of her anatomy. It was a strange sight, somehow hypnotizing, (a mixture of white skin, dark tan, and pale blondness that made her both repulsive and attractive), like a dangerous and morbid object of desire. She was a living record of the effects of the sun on skin, an artifact from another world, a creature at once familiar and alien, of a disturbing beauty that at times bordered on deformity and the grotesque.