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2025-10-04 IAM: Both Married (Scarce 4/5)
Which turns me inside out / As I am apparently pulled / In both directions / At once…
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The Baitman Cycle (How the Visible Wound Heals Gotham)
Schwartz (frowning): ”But Carl, that is precisely what disturbs me. In Internal Family Systems, we honor every part — the protector, the exile, the manager — and bring them into harmony. Bruce never integrates. He weaponizes his fragmentation. Is that redemption? Or is it simply contagion?”
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Baitman: Year Two (René Girard on Scapegoating)
This is the [scapegoat] mechanism in its purest form. The crowd believes it has expelled the cause of disorder. Gotham unites in condemning Bruce. His death restores civic harmony.
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2025-10-01 SAM: Severe Famine (Scarce 1/5)
Hungry for love / Hungry for security / Hungry for belonging…
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2025-09-29 IAM: By Tribes and Families (Idol 19/20)
Making space / For my wife / And children // To be fully themselves / Yet wholly mine…
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Baitman: Year One (Dostoevsky On the Price of Order)
Bruce’s grief hardens into fury. He confronts Crane, and Crane does not deny it. Instead, with chilling calm, he explains.
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2025-09-28 IAM: Had Taken Out (Idol 18/20)
The heart in my chest fills up / Until it bursts // Becoming a fountain / That fills up / The hearts / Of my blood brothers / Until they burst…
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2025-09-27 IAM: Provide Wives (Idol 17/20)
When our wives and children see us / They are excited by our return / At least at first…
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Leibniz’s Confession (Beyond Theodicy)
…a silent Luther walks him behind Christ from Gethsemane to Golgotha, and ends by asking a single question: Where is the goodness of God?
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Baitman: Year Zero (Mandela on How to Redeem Gotham)
They call him Baitman — a name meant to humiliate, but which Bruce embraces. / His scar becomes his mask.
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2025-09-26 IAM: Compassion For Their Brothers (Idol 16/20)
I am sad / To have caused them / Such pain…
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2025-09-25 IAM: Lost One of Our Own (Idol 15/20)
When they fail to find me / On our tiny island / They start to panic / Fearing / I had drowned / In His sea of compassion…
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2025-09-24 IAM: Sat Until Evening (Idol 14/20)
It belongs to Jesus / And when it is cut open / All of the tears / He carried for us / Pour out / Drowning me in compassion…






