‘When the taunts of my enemy repeat I am nowhere,’ replied the blinded captive, ‘such denials insist I live to affirm: “I am now here.” ’
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A naked maiden, mouth parted in the breathlessness of desire, instinctively defends herself against the closing of her eyes by probing fingers that seek to prolong her dream of her phantom lover. (Love Blinded, 1884, by Donato Barcaglia, 1849-1930.) |
See also Vignette 1
https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2024/08/vignette-1-twenty-five-words.html
See also Vignette 2
See also Vignette 3
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)
and Listen Close to Me (2011)
and A Bad Case (2015)
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-bad-case-and-other-adventures-of.html
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.
