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A Death wish (n.) hid in “I have twelve fingers,” said by the widow who had forgotten her rich uncle's birthday on the 12th — the uncle shall die, the abnormal children shall die, and I will get their money.
Macbeth (n.) and his Lady are two disunited halves of a single psyche: what he fears she suffers — he has the dagger hallucination, she the illness; she becomes all remorse and he all defiance.
A Vase (n.) stood for the wife the widower blamed himself for losing — “he had broken a lovely vase” — and he smashed the earthenware vase kept from a married patient, requiring of women an “unearthly beauty”.