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A particular kind of despair is associated with catastrophe. There is no special word for this despair, though there should be; it requires a name all its own. It involves such associated concepts as bitterness, resilience, justice, trauma, insult and injury. ...
It's the state of mind that arises when an event shatters the soul. That is half of it. But the other half involves the way the world perversely refuses to understand. Having experienced the injury of loss, the victim then discovers the insult of indifference.
Nobody gives a damn. The rest of the world continues to go about its business, blithely forgiving and forgetting, or never having known at all. Auden's poem captures some of this:
--About suffering they were never wrong ...
--About suffering they were never wrong ...
