We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world. Trauma is the savagery of the universe made manifest within us, and it destroys not only the integrity of consciousness, the myth of self-mastery, and the experience of time but also our ability to live peacefully with others, almost as if it were a virus, a pathogen content to do nothing besides replicate itself in the world, over and over, until only it remains.
David J. Morris, The Evil Hours
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The Chariot of Death (1848)
— by Théophile Schuler
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Val Kilmer and a giant animatronic bat from the deleted dream sequence for “Batman Forever (1995)
Directed by Joel Schumacher
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