The counting
In the book cycle, there was a planet where special women lived, who flew into space riding on some kind of cross-shaped jerk.

Glenn Cook, The Dark War. It consists of three books: The Triumphant, The Sorcerer, The Last Rite. There were witch wolves not only flying into space on the crosses, there was politics, intrigues, bloodshed!

In you died the poet and philosopher

YYY: Yes, a lot of people are dead in me. But it is better to sit on this cemetery in silence than to listen to a choir of sub-persons, with their comments chaotically tearing the blanket of reality into pieces of a unilateral perception of the world.

The schizophrenic is still alive, I’ll see.