The Pigeon Whispers

<p><br></p><p>Smart and accomplished it is customary for pyschoanalyst Dr Faye Monroe to control the dialogue ask the questions tease answers. When she encounters a new client<span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)>?</span>the erudite Oliver Blake the nature of engagement tilts?and with it the axis of Faye's constructed world. A cerebral dance commences. Choreographed with hints of a '<em>danse macabre</em>' it evolves to?fencing bouts of cognitive and psychological combat. What does he actually<span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)>?</span>want? Who is his wife??And where is she?  </p><p>Against a classical score we roam?and ricochet?philosophy art Schopenhauer and the childless choice Greek myths?scatology and<span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)>?</span>sarcophagy and?in India?the delicate and rich art of passementerie<span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)>?</span>its<span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)>?</span>elaborate braids embellishments and stitching...?As well as the more mundane - college friends old flames excruciating family - the contrast of?life's messy minutiae.? </p><p>In its Arabic origins the word of the pigeon whisperer is deemed untrustworthy?dismissed as hearsay from court tainted and taboo. As our perspectives shift and swivel fault lines are traced addictions viscerally fed and as cracks<span style=color: rgba(255 0 0 1)>?</span>and flaws are revealed we ask whose<span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)>?</span>whispers whose<span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)>?</span>words<span style=color: rgba(255 38 0 1)>?</span>do?we believe? </p><p><br></p>