Vignette 3: Twenty-five words.*

Mayfair. 1924. Midnight. Party games.

‘Barefoot challenge! Cherchez votre femme!’

Screened by bedsheet, their women display bare feet.

Host mistakes feet of mistress for wife’s.

La Vénus d’Arles. (Louvre museum, Paris.)

See also Vignette 1

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2024/08/vignette-1-twenty-five-words.html

 

See also Vignette 2

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2024/08/vignette-2-twenty-five-words.html

 

See also Vignette4

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2024/11/vignette-4-twenty-five-words.html 

 

Catherine Eisner believes passionately in plot-driven suspense fiction, a devotion to literary craft that draws on studies in psychoanalytical criminology and psychoactive pharmacology to explore the dark side of motivation, and ignite plot twists with unexpected outcomes. Within these disciplines Eisner’s fictions seek to explore variant literary forms derived from psychotherapy and criminology to trace the traumas of characters in extremis. Compulsive recurring sub-themes in her narratives examine sibling rivalry, rivalrous cousinhood, pathological imposture, financial chicanery, and the effects of non-familial male pheromones on pubescence, 

see Eisner’s Sister Morphine (2008)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/sister-morphine.html

and Listen Close to Me (2011)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/published-this-autumn-listen-close-to.html 

and A Bad Case (2015)
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-bad-case-and-other-adventures-of.html

 

*THE LAW OF TWENTY-FIVE: ‘Of the quinary, or number five; that number five pertains to the Law. . . . accordingly the number twenty-five signifies the Law, because five by five — that is, five times five — make twenty-five, or the number five squared.’ 

Augustine’s Tractate 25 on the Gospel of John.

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My Lady Midday

                  Bathwater drawn, her hair in disarray,

                  glass slipper worn, she sighs with no reproach. 

                  Noon is her dawn, my Lady of Midday.

                  ‘I was not born to ride the pumpkin coach.’

Catherine Eisner                              

An original pen drawing by Vogue artist Benito,
commissioned by my grandfather in the 1920s,
which remains in my private collection.

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Catherine Eisner believes passionately in plot-driven suspense fiction, a devotion to literary craft that draws on studies in psychoanalytical criminology and psychoactive pharmacology to explore the dark side of motivation, and ignite plot twists with unexpected outcomes. Within these disciplines Eisner’s fictions seek to explore variant literary forms derived from psychotherapy and criminology to trace the traumas of characters in extremis. Compulsive recurring sub-themes in her narratives examine sibling rivalry, rivalrous cousinhood, pathological imposture, financial chicanery, and the effects of non-familial male pheromones on pubescence, 

see Eisner’s Sister Morphine (2008)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/sister-morphine.html

and Listen Close to Me (2011)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/published-this-autumn-listen-close-to.html 

and A Bad Case (2014)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-bad-case-and-other-adventures-of.html