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the body's oldest alarm, screaming in a language older than words.

french originThe word birthed the Reign of Terror, 1793
amygdala alertFear fires before your conscious mind notices threat
frozen responseTonic immobility plays dead when fight fails
dino nameDeinos means terrible, root of dinosaur
sublime cousinPhilosophers ranked terror as a source of beauty
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