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Laughter as resistance and connection· Anxious PeopleParental responsibility and forgiveness· Anxious PeopleThe grammar of death· Anxious PeopleStories and literature as consolation· Anxious People“Idiots” and human vulnerability· Anxious PeopleLoneliness and companionship· Anxious PeoplePeople are more than their past mistakes· Anxious People“We save as many people as we can”· Anxious People“Stockholm” as a symbol of the outsider· Anxious PeopleHereditary aristocratic status and peerage power· The Man Who LaughsAristocratic violence and cruelty· The Man Who LaughsCovert power at court· The Man Who Laughs“The farming of the unhappy by the happy”· The Man Who LaughsPower relations between benefaction and gratitude· The Man Who LaughsThe historical paradox of aristocratic government· The Man Who Laughs“Night is not as black as man”· The Man Who LaughsConflict between privilege and civil rights· The Man Who LaughsIllusory hope· The Man Who LaughsThe smile as a mask for suffering· The Man Who LaughsRepentance and salvation of the soul· The Man Who LaughsThe oppressed kept silent and spoken for· The Man Who LaughsChildhood innocence· The Man Who LaughsClass inequality and aristocratic privilege· The Man Who LaughsFate’s trap and reversal of fortune· The Man Who LaughsThe interplay of fate and providence· The Man Who LaughsUrsus’s misanthropy· The Man Who LaughsPolitical opportunism and conscience· The Man Who LaughsThe forced smile· The Man Who LaughsAristocratic privilege and social inequality· The Man Who LaughsThe Sea and Fate· The Man Who LaughsThe ideal and the flesh· The Man Who LaughsThe union of the grotesque and the sublime· The Man Who LaughsMutual redemption through affliction· The Man Who LaughsThe contradiction between law and liberty· The Man Who LaughsSilence as a survival strategy· The Man Who LaughsBlindness and insight· The Man Who LaughsSocial indifference· The Man Who LaughsThe opposition between nature and society· The Man Who LaughsSocial stigma attached to actors· The Man Who LaughsNature’s cruelty and indifference· The Man Who LaughsReversal of disfigurement and stigma· The Man Who LaughsArrest by silent command· The Man Who LaughsSudden good fortune as a moral test· The Man Who LaughsCompassion and practical charity· The Man Who LaughsThe deliberate manufacture of deformity· The Man Who LaughsMalicious envy and ingratitude· The Man Who LaughsBlindness, sight, and spiritual vision· The Man Who LaughsDea’s inner vision· The Man Who LaughsSocial hierarchy and reversal of status· The Man Who LaughsDivine providence and innocent suffering· The Man Who LaughsBlindness and spiritual insight· The Man Who LaughsConflict between appearance and the inner self· The Man Who LaughsPolitical allegory of monarchy and the people· The Man Who LaughsGrotesque and Sublime· The Man Who LaughsLove as the meaning of life· The Man Who LaughsThe Crown’s Right to Mutilate· The Man Who LaughsProvidence and Chance· The Man Who LaughsRaison d'État· The Man Who LaughsThe Abyss· The Man Who LaughsHansel’s breadcrumb trail· Hansel and GretelHansel’s white-pebble trail· Hansel and GretelThe candy house· Hansel and GretelLife force· The ShepherdRevenge and justice· The ShepherdReligious faith and extremism· The ShepherdFixer· The Shepherdcosmopolitanism· Last and First MenThe continued existence of past events· Last and First MenThe Aesthetic Ideal of Flight· Last and First Mengeneral senescence of the species· Last and First MenSupra-temporal Experience· Last and First Mentribalism· Last and First MenSacred Flight· Last and First Menpsycho-physics· Last and First MenAdmiration of fate· Last and First MenAmericanism· Last and First MenTelepathic communication· Last and First Menbiological control· Last and First MenThe Aesthetic Order of the Universe· Last and First MenCosmic ideal· Last and First MenCult of Youth· Last and First MenCyclic time and eternal being· Last and First MenAmerican plague of insanity· Last and First MenEcstatic fatalism· Last and First MenUniversal Music· Last and First MenEnergism· Last and First Mensociety as the supreme work of art· Last and First MenFirst Men· Last and First MenGordelpus· Last and First MenGroup-mind· Last and First MenInfluence of the Future on the Past· Last and First MenMartian diamond worship· Last and First MenMartian radiational ideology· Last and First MenMartian-terrestrial symbiosis· Last and First MenPatagonian racial senescence· Last and First MenRacial mind· Last and First MenRacial purpose· Last and First MenReligion of Life· Last and First MenRemaking human nature· Last and First MenSexual group· Last and First Men