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The Miracle Animal and the Pale Inside: Existential Thought in Disco Elysium – Haywire Magazine

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The first thing we learn about Harry Du Bois, the detective protagonist of ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium, is why he drank himself into a state of total amnesia. The femme fatale finishing her cigarette on the mezzanine outside their hotel rooms says she heard some of the drug-fueled “destructothon” from the night before. She tells him that she caught some of what he was screaming before passing out in a blaze of self-annihilation. “I think you screamed that you… didn’t want to be ‘this type of animal’ any more. I may have misheard, but it was sort of memorable.”

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