The interceding voice is known to you
from literature; a stranger’s voice who speaks
offstage: He passed with his friendly word through
from literature; a stranger’s voice who speaks
offstage: He passed with his friendly word through
red-brick pillars into the darkness. Texts,
familiar as the classics, tell of
a life’s unforeseeable salvation:
Someone shouts. A hand grabs me by the collar
familiar as the classics, tell of
a life’s unforeseeable salvation:
Someone shouts. A hand grabs me by the collar
and I am flung from the police cordon.
A casual comment to the universe,
addresses no one in particular.
Jaunty, the voice is baroquely perverse.
I run, compelled by an animal fear.
addresses no one in particular.
Jaunty, the voice is baroquely perverse.
I run, compelled by an animal fear.
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Sometimes we are so confounded that wedo not know our own voice or whence this plea
comes, but hear only the stranger’s decree:
‘You know there cannot be a voice for me.’
Catherine Eisner
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Text composed from key lines from :
A Passage to India. E M Forster.
The Pianist: One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945. Władysław Szpilman.
Of this Time, of that Place. Lionel Trilling.
The Pilgrim’s Progress. John Bunyan.
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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
