Author: Bennett Sims

Cites

• Sigmund Freud (1)
  • IN: A Questionable Shape (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I hastily left the narrow street at the next turning. However, after wandering about for some time without asking the way, I suddenly found myself back in the same street, where my presence began to attract attention. Once more I hurried away, only to return there again by a different route. I was now seized by a feeling that I can only describe as uncanny. Other situations share this feature of the unintentional return. One comes back again and again to the same spot. To many people the acme of the uncanny is represented by death, dead bodies, revenants... The return of the dead.
    FROM: The Uncanny, (1919), Book, France
• Jalal Toufic (1)
  • IN: A Questionable Shape (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Human love is implicated with death, because it implies either resurrecting the beloved or following the spouse into the death realm. It is fitting that the lost one is a synonym for the dead one, since the dead are lost de jure and one loses them de facto in the labyrinth. Marriage requires the spouse to follow his wife into the labyrinthe realm of death... To follow them into undeath, as Orpheus did. Orpheus is the model spouse.
    FROM: Undying Love, Love Dies, (2002), Book, Lebanon