A Posthumous Shock, by Will Self

How everything became trauma

December 2021 Issue [Essay] A Posthumous Shock How everything became trauma by Will Self , Illustrations by Patrik Svensson [Essay] A Posthumous Shock How everything became trauma by Will Self , Adjust Share Reassure me it’s like this for you too: you experience the unexpected—a psychic shock, a physical blow, a realization so disagreeable it sets you reeling—yet even as this event takes place in all its random spontaneity, it’s shadowed by the thought: I should’ve anticipated it. Moreover, it —the shock, that is—should’ve anticipated me ; by which I mean to express this notion: in our confusi

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