There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always. - Grant Morrison

We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

mmmmen stink! bossss stink! hungry

During this brief interval in the proceedings, we can take a pause to remind ourselves that there is an end to all this in sight and we’re almost halfway there. That doesn’t mean you can stop paying attention. In fact, you’ll have to try harder from here on in.