On Saint Agnes’ Eve
her bridal veil burst into flames
her bridal veil burst into flames
when her suitor clasped her hand
and she saw his face
for the first time.
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Saint Gertrude and Saint George of England
The noted anthropologist and folklorist, Gertrude M. Godden records the Legend of the False Bride: ‘Thereat the veil of the false bride took fire’ and the true bride was released to marry.
I‘d like to record here my profound admiration for Gertrude M. Godden, the Scourge of British Communism and National Seer in the interwar years, who stands in parallel beside George Orwell as our companionate Patron Saint of all anti-communists and Russophobes.
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My copies of the Seer’s two powerful indictments of Soviet incursions into our national life, published respectively in 1935 and 1936. |
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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)
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.
