Antigone

How does one handle suffering? Numbness or rage are both symptoms of Grief. Antigone famously rages at Creon's refusal to allow her to bury her brother, Polyneices. You may have been praised for taking things well for complying and assuming that the losses, failures and disappointments you're experiencing are part of life. You can get used to almost anything, including, imprisonment, solitude, perhaps not death. If it's your demise, you won't have the luxury of the vote. One of the first casualties of mortality is expression. On D Day soldiers scaled the cliffs of Omaha beach. Such self-sacrifice is almost unimaginable within a universe where self-seeking is the lingua franca.

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