"And there were so many other signposts. D’Courtney’s suicide drive, produced by intense guilt sensations of abandonment. He had abandoned his son. It was tearing him apart. Then, Barbara D’Courtney’s deep half-twin image of herself and Ben Reich; somehow she knew they were half-brother and sister. And Reich’s inability to kill Barbara at Chooka Frood’s. He knew it too, deep down in the unconscious. He wanted to destroy the hateful father who had rejected him, but he could not bring himself to harm his sister."