"What she does not see cannot hurt her. The dead, in my mind, do not watch."
He murmurs.
"They simply are not. Snuffed, from the world, without consequence or meaning. There is no justice, no harmony, but no injustice or dischord either. We are simply a sum of cells. Shed the intolerable cruelty and injustic of her death and focus on the air that moves in and out of your lungs."
Bruce's philosophy of the afterlife is much the same: there isn't one. But he's clung to Rachel's ideals, and the crushing guilt over her death has kept it all very much alive in his mind. He's heard virtually every suggestion there is on how to deal with it, and on the surface Bane's advice isn't any different.
But the wording is; it acknowledges the injustice without throwing it in Bruce's face, and it's specific. 'The air that moves in and out of your lungs'. It's oddly hypnotic, and Bruce closes his eyes, and breathes.
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:18 am (UTC)"Is that how you're all right with having me around, even with how she felt about me?"
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:25 am (UTC)He murmurs.
"They simply are not. Snuffed, from the world, without consequence or meaning. There is no justice, no harmony, but no injustice or dischord either. We are simply a sum of cells. Shed the intolerable cruelty and injustic of her death and focus on the air that moves in and out of your lungs."
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:43 am (UTC)But the wording is; it acknowledges the injustice without throwing it in Bruce's face, and it's specific. 'The air that moves in and out of your lungs'. It's oddly hypnotic, and Bruce closes his eyes, and breathes.
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:51 am (UTC)Said, as though that is that.
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:54 am (UTC)