The word disaster, meaning misfortune or catastrophe, is derived from the French désastre and the Italian disastro and literally means “no-star” or bad omen. Such a star also appears in Lars von Trier’s apocalyptic film Melancholia. On the one hand, Melancholia is not actually a star, but turns out to…
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