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“We continue the chain of
generations and, knowingly or not, willingly or unwillingly, we pay
debts of the past: as long as we have not cleared the slate, an
“invisible loyalty” impels us to repeat and repeat a moment of
incredible joy or unbearable sorrow, an injustice or a tragic death. Or
its echo.“
Anne Ancelin Schutzenburger “The Ancestor Syndrome”
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- Honor's Ghost
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Honor’s Ghost is a story of the
search for happiness and meaning in life, as Honor faces a mid-life
crisis. Approaching aged fifty, she is increasingly dissatisfied with
her unfaithful husband, and her empty nest as the last of her children
prepares to leave home. She is asked to participate in some clinical
trials of a psychiatric drug, Instil®, designed to cure a range of minor
depressive and anxiety disorders.
Amazed by its success with her
patients, and deeply disturbed when the trials are suddenly halted
without explanation, she illicitly keeps her own stocks of the drug, and
tries to discover why it has been withdrawn. She experiments with
Instil® and encounters, in dreams, her great-grandmother, Annie. She is
struck by the similarities between her and Annie's life challenges and
burdens.
As she remembers her past, dreams, drugs, and
destiny intersect to lead her to new perspectives on the challenges of
mid-life.
An advanced work in progress, due for completion in 2012.
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