Cotard's

Jules Cotard (1840-1889)

Cotard’s Syndrome is a neurological condition where the victim suffers from the delusion they’re dead--"the delusion of negation" is another way this disorder is described. It’s the country cousin of Capgras where there's the haunting suspicion that a familiar persona is a guise for a imposter. Deep REM sleep can sometimes result in amnesia. Essentially you awaken on a profoundly wrong side of the bed, where you’re skating without blades so to speak. Temporary amnesia of this kind is akin to what a woman experiences, when she's left hobbling cause her heel’s fallen off. Their world falls apart unless they’re lucky enough to find a shoemaker.

read the review of The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy and Joseph Silver in The East Hampton Star