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Analysis of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 26, 2023

The reclusive French writer Marcel Proust, now considered by many scholars as the greatest novelist of the 20th century, labored for more than 14 years and died while still adding to what would eventually be a seven-volume masterpiece. The novel is so singular, so complete, and so monumental that it has become the brilliant exemplar of modernism and the distillation of 20th-century aesthetics. Proust’s admirers included great thinkers and writers such as José Ortega y Gassett, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, André Gide, Jean Genet, Gérard Genette, Roland Barthes, Ralph Ellison, and many more. His work effaced the realism of the 19th-century novel and set a standard for narrative fiction. In Search of Lost Time is a brilliant treatment of the universal human condition, of the quest of the individual for the meaning of life, of the birth of the artist, and of the transcendence of art.

In the original French, À la recherche du temps perdu is a verbal tour de force, an exquisite rendering of the narrator’s perception and apprehension of a shifting universe and of the incalculable losses to time. From the very first line, the novel draws the reader into the conscious and unconscious realm of a speaker who is author-narrator-protagonist and who exists alternately and simultaneously in all the times and places of his life.

Since 1922, À la recherche du temps perdu has been read in English as Remembrance of Things Past , in the translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, which immediately became the basis for other translations. Moncrieff took the title from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought/ I summon up remembrance of things past,/ I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,/And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste”). The Moncrieff translation is poetic but much wordier than the original French. Moncrieff had a tendency to give several synonyms for many words and to gratuitously embellish, and his focus on rumination and memory in the title does not allow for the multiple possibilities of wordplay inherent in the original French. In 1993 the Modern Library edition (the translation of C. K. Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and D. J. Enright) recast the work more literally as In Search of Lost Time , a title now universally preferred.

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In Search of Lost Time consists of seven volumes, although the various editions and translations have split the work in different ways. Proust did not readily find a publisher for his work (André Gide rejected it for publication by the Nouvelle Revue Française, which later became Gallimard). The first volume, Swann’s Way was published by Grasset in 1913, at the expense of the author, as the first of a two-part work. The Guermantes Way, originally the title of the second part, was scheduled to appear the following year; however, World War I (1914–18) intervened. Grasset closed its doors, and Proust continued to expand and enrich the text. In 1919 Gallimard published the entire, much longer novel, beginning with Swann’s Way and continuing with Within a Budding Grove (or In the Shadows of the Young Girls in Flower; À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, 1919), which was awarded the Prix Goncourt. The Guermantes Way ( Le côté de Guermantes ) and Sodom and Gomorrah ( Sodome et Gomorrhe ) appeared in 1922. The remaining volumes came out posthumously under the direction of Marcel Proust’s brother, Robert Proust. The Prisoner ( La prisonnière ) appeared in 1923; The Fugitive ( La fugitive , 1925) was first published as Albertine disparue to differentiate it from another book with a similar title; and, finally, Time Regained ( Le temps retrouvé ) closed the cycle in 1927, at a total 4,300 pages.

The French text now considered the most authoritative is À la recherche du temps perdu, edited by JeanYves Tadié (Gallimard, 1987). The finest and most ambitious English translation of the entire masterpiece is the Penguin UK Modern Classics edition, which came out between 1996 and 2001, based on the Tadié 1987 Gallimard edition. Under the general editorship of Christopher Prendergast, each of the seven volumes of Proust’s novel has been translated into English by a different scholar. The first volume, Swann’s Way, is by Lydia Davis; In the Shadows of the Young Girls in Flower is by John Grieve; The Guermantes Way is by Mark Treharne; Sodom and Gomorrah is by John Sturrock; The Prisoner is by Carol Clark; The Fugitive is by Peter Collier; and Finding Time Again is by Ian Patterson, a translation that John Updike calls sublime. The first four parts have been published in New York by Viking (2003–04). The remaining three volumes are not scheduled until 2019, due to revised American copyright laws.

In Search of Lost Time in any version is a literary masterpiece that has dissolved the boundaries of genre, incorporating the elements of musical and artistic composition. The novel combines reflective essay, autobiography, and panoramic human comedy. Originally conceived as two books, each in two parts and orchestrated, some say, in homage to the four-opera Ring cycle of Richard Wagner (1813–33), the novel achieves Wagnerian fullness and amplitude in its fully developed score. Critics see the template for In Search of Lost Time in Parsifal’s quest of the Holy Grail, with its symbolic swan, attendant flower maidens, and the Gurnemanz, leader of the Grail Knights. In Search of Lost Time, like Parsifal, is the epic story of a young man who, through trial and suffering, is destined to restore harmony to his world and direct the mind to a higher divinity.

In Search of Lost Time has become the seminal work of modernism and the novel that best exemplifi es the narrative style of the early 20th century. Proust destroys 19th-century novelistic conventions of chronology and causality while incorporating Freudian psychology and the subjective apprehension of time and sensation into the narrative. The novel dramatizes the vast panorama of Belle Époque society, with recurring characters in the style of Honoré de Balzac’s Human Comedy, in sharply drawn vignettes and set-pieces as memorable and comic as those of Charles Dickens but with the modulations of perception and shading of a Henry James. This work is a wonderfully nuanced application of impressionism to novelistic narrative; it sheds the vestiges of photographic realism by shredding light and color into component wavelengths, the multiple superimposed impressions of the narrator. It is a bildungsroman, a novel of growth and development, but from the inside out; it advances from a narrative stance in the present of the adult narrator and moves backward in time in a series of images and recurring motifs. Gerard Genette says that the narrative is polymodal (both internally and externally focused) and polyvocal (both in the voice of the internal narrator Marcel and the heightened voice of the external narrator Proust) and, therefore, stretches the literary genre and enlarges the possibilities of fiction.

The chronology of In Search of Lost Time corresponds essentially to the life of the narrator, who is remarkably like the author, even in first name, except that the main portion of Swann’s Way, “Swann in Love,” takes place before the births of the narrator and his first love, Gilberte, in the 1890s. The last episode of Time Regained, the afternoon at the Guermantes, takes place in 1925, after the death of the author, as does perhaps the very beginning, the “Overture,” which introduces the very book we are reading, but from the vantage point of the future, after Time Regained.

The work begins with that famous reflexive line: “For a long time, I went to bed early” (Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure). This is followed by recollections of awakenings appearing as free associations but subtly intertwining a series of leitmotifs that end in the resurrection of the village of Combray through involuntary memory, the episode of the madeleine cakes dipped in a cup of tea. “Combray 2” goes back to the childhood family walks through the country gardens, differentiating the two main paths, the path by their neighbor Swann and the path by the Guermantes, the haughty aristocrats. The next section flashes back to a time before the birth of the narrator, to Swann’s infatuation with Odette, to their affair, to Odette’s poses, to Swann’s jealousy, to the ironies and cruelties inherent in every aspect of love. Swann is rich and Jewish and has artistic ambitions, but he squanders his talents on the pursuit of society and the love of a woman he does not even like. The last part of the first book is devoted to dreams of place names and to the meeting in the Champs-Élysées, the main thoroughfare in the middle of Paris, of Gilberte, the little girl with red hair who is the narrator’s first love. The last is an image of Mme Swann in the Bois (park) one late autumn morning, the memory which becomes a regret for the lost moments and places as fleeting as the years.

Within a Budding Grove includes “Madame Swann at Home,” in which the narrator as a boy makes friends with Gilberte Swann and begins to experience stirrings of longing, jealousy, and desire. The Swann’s household opens to him, and he has glimpses of Odette, Swann, the artists, the concerts, and the exhibits then current, while getting varying and often opposing critiques of both personalities and performances. The narrator’s parents wish he would do something useful with his life, but he continues a dilettante in pursuit of society and pleasure. From Gilberte, he first hears of Albertine. The narrator has snatches of revelation: In love, happiness is abnormal; love secretes a permanent pain. In “Place-Names: The Place,” the narrator leaves for the seaside town of Balbec with his grandmother. There among the visits, the names, the seascapes, the churches, the dinners, he meets the little band of beautiful young girls, today’s young buds, and has a glimpse of future ugliness. He makes friends with Charlus, his alter ego, and begins his fixation with Albertine.

The Guermantes Way, named for the alternate walk in the village of Combray, was once planned to be the counterpart to the volume of Swann’s Way and a middle section before Time Recaptured. In the finished work, The Guermantes Way forms a two-part treatment that begins with a move of the narrator’s family to a new apartment in Paris. It encompasses a variety of social episodes that underscore the narrator’s fascination with nobility and are punctuated by the grandmother’s illness and death. The Guermantes Way has an accretion of themes, among them death and loss, notations on theatricality, role playing, social aspirations, snobbery, and sexual ambivalence. The narrator is essentially recording the world of dispersion and dissimulation and the distractions of social life to his creative energies.

Sodom and Gomorrah , sometimes translated as “Cities of the Plain,” begins with a forty-page essay on homosexuality, “the race of inverts,” in Proust’s words, both beautiful and repellent. It concludes at a reception at the palace of the prince de Guermantes, the pinnacle of aspirations for the caste-conscious narrator, though he is now aware that every level of society is swarming with illicit lusts. Sodom is to be understood as synonymous with the affinity of men for other men, and Gomorrah with lesbianism. The narrator is haunted by his suspicion of Albertine’s preferring girls, and the entire book is redolent with the illusive nature of love and the spectacle of man turned into slave through obsessive passion.

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The Captive and The Fugitive (sometimes called The Sweet Cheat Gone ) narrate, in almost 1,000 pages, the relationship between Marcel and Albertine, an epic love story totally devoid of idealism, glamour, romance, or enjoyment—except as suffering. The sleeping Albertine evokes lyrical descriptions but awakes only exquisite pain. Love for Proust is an exercise in futility because it is never requited, and although the loved one can be captured, the captive can never be held. The universe is ever changing and the personality ever fl eeting. The narrator says that we love only what we do not wholly possess; he is physically ill, discouraged with life, and disillusioned with society.

Time Regained begins years later in a world dramatically altered, a world that the old literary forms can no longer reflect accurately. This is underscored when the narrator, a guest at a lavish estate, reads a pastiche of pages purportedly from the Goncourt Journals, which describe an earlier time in a “realistic” style, a description which differs markedly from the experience of the narrator. Marcel, dejected and ill, withdraws from society to a sanitarium and returns to Paris in 1916 only to capture in potent satire the continuing search for pleasure, luxury, and dissipation in the midst of the bitter and bloody war.

Yet amid the pessimistic details of daily life during this time of wrenching upheavals, in the tasting of tea and madeleine, the narrator experiences a great joy, a glimmer of the past, long lost. He experiences through involuntary memory a repeated pattern of revelations, of illuminations through the medium of sensory perception that can unite the present to the past. He becomes aware that in these favored moments, he is liberated at least temporarily from the passage of time, and he reflects that he must capture these sacred moments into a literary creation. The narrator has to work against time, as his illness is progressing, but he is elated that now he has a literary vocation. He is finally able to detach himself from society and to produce in the ensuing time and short space available to him a voluminous novel, the most lyrical and compassionate treatment on the human condition.

In Search of Lost Time is not easily read, especially in the sequential order advised by critics and informed readers. It is long (seven volumes) and longwinded (4,300 pages). The prose is a labyrinth, the sentences transcontinental, the plot seemingly motionless, and the author one of the great megalomaniacs of literature. Yet Roger Shattuck, a most incisive reader of Proust’s work, says that neither the novel form nor human nature remains unchanged after Proust has passed. The endless reflections and contradictions found In Search of Lost Time contain the multitudinous self, the fragmentary nature of perception, the conflicting aspects of reality, and the fluctuations and partial realization of the personality.

Reading Proust has afforded wisdom, pleasure, and satire, as well as self-discovery. The now-classic Monty Python comedy troupe paid homage to Proust’s novel in a sketch first broadcast on November 16, 1972, called The All-England Summarize Proust Competition. The winner was the contestant who could best summarize À la recherche du temps perdu in 15 seconds: “once in a swimsuit and once in evening dress.” Many others have attempted to summarize the novel in as few words as possible. Here are some worthy examples: Gérard Genette in Figures III: “Marcel devient écrivain” (“Marcel becomes a writer”). Vincent Descombes in Proust: philosophie du roman: “Marcel devient un grand écrivain” (“Marcel becomes a great writer”). Gérard Genette, again in Palimpsestes: “Marcel finit par devenir écrivain (“Marcel ends up becoming a great writer”). A Web site temps perdu.com lists many other reductive summaries and invites submissions.

In 1977 Alain de Botton created another distillation of Proust’s novel and an affectionate view of the brilliant and often bizarre author in a best seller, How Proust Can Change Your Life. He reveals Proust’s ideas on, among other things, how to revive a relationship, how to select a good doctor, and how to turn suffering to advantage. Alain de Botton says that Proust’s book is a search for causes behind dissipation and sloth. Far from being a memoir tracing the passage of a more lyrical age, it is a practical, universally applicable story about how to stop wasting time and start appreciating life. The object of reading Proust is to come away with a heightened sense of perception that can be employed wherever you are and in whatever time you live. Though many of us have traditionally been concerned with the pursuit of happiness, far greater wisdom lies in pursuing ways to be properly and productively unhappy.

Readers find In Search of Lost Time a dramatization, or perhaps a novelization, of many, if not most, of the ideas and the aesthetic approaches that define the 20th century. Among these—this list is not exhaustive—are the scientific studies of light, matter, memory, and sensation; the feelings of alienation, disillusionment, and ennui; the fragmentation of consciousness; Henri Bergson’s élan vital, the life force, that stresses duration and the fluidity of time; Freudian psychoanalysis, Gestalt psychology, and Jungian collective unconscious; Einstein’s theory of relativity; and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, more accurately called, as it pertains to pinpointing reality in time and space, the theory of indeterminacy.

Proust’s novel also serves as an exemplar of the techniques and the modes of modern art. It explains Belle Époque decadence, synesthesia (the interplay of the senses), symbolism, impressionism, cubism, montage, telescoping, stream of consciousness, epiphany, objective correlative, even magic realism. In The Proust Project (FSG/Turtle Point Press, 2004), André Aciman, a distinguished critic, asks literary figures from our time to select a passage of three or four pages in length from In Search of Lost Time and to respond to it. The comments of prominent literary figures tell us something about Proust, and a lot about our own era. Aciman remarks in his preface that In Search of Lost Time is a novel about intimacy, but its long and densely populated story is filled with brutality, with malice and envy, with lacerating desire, with jealousy and betrayal, with all sorts of little cruelties.

Proust saw the underside of humanity and the nothingness of society and depicted it with incisive intelligence and understanding, but he was not a nihilist. A passage in the last volume of the novel may serve as manifesto: “Real life, life at last laid bare and illuminated—the only life in consequence which can be said to be really lived—is literature, and life thus defined is in a sense all the time immanent in ordinary men no less than the artist.” Edmund White has remarked that Proust was no ordinary man: Proust happened to live at one of the high points of culture and civilization; he had unusual natural gifts of eloquence, analysis of psychology, and assimilation of information; and he was willing to sacrifice his life for his art.

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Healing Through The Grief of Lost Time

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In our society, there’s a common misconception that grief is sadness. This is most likely due to the fact that we have an ingrained societal tendency to utilize grief and mourning as coping skills to help us deal with death. In practice, however, humans grieve and mourn every loss of something important to them, whether it’s a person or pet or even something more practical like a home or job.

In fact, grief is present in the wake of even the small losses people may not deem as significant. Everything from falling out with friends to dropping a scoop of ice cream on the ground can spark varied levels of grief followed by a period of mourning what could have been. However, as we head into summer 2021, just over a year since COVID-19 was first declared a global pandemic, dealing with and healing through the grief of lost time looks a bit different.

Watch this video by Sage Therapist, Lesley McKinney who discusses dealing with and healing through the grief of lost time.

Grief and COVID-19

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines grief as emotional anguish experienced on the heels of a substantial loss, usually the death of a loved one. When it comes to conversations surrounding the losses experienced in 2020-21, the key word in this definition is “usually.” Why? It’s important to realize that, while not everyone is grieving the loss of a loved one to the pandemic, many of us are certainly still experiencing pandemic-related grief.

This past year, we’ve seen a total societal upheaval. Worse, many of the changes occurred so quickly that a significant portion of the population experienced a new world overnight. Events were canceled, travel was restricted, businesses had to adapt or shut down, and families had to stay separated at a time when they were experiencing a deep urge to be together.

The Grief of Lost Time

Through these losses and many more experiences on an individual and societal level, we are all connected. Their compounding effect is what is causing the secondary wave of communal grief washing over the world right now—grief over the loss of time. Over the past years, we’ve lost:

  • Time with friends, family members, teachers, colleagues, and innumerable other important people whose lives were cut short this year.
  • Time celebrating, mourning, and just being with loved ones on important occasions.
  • Time to yourself when your home has essentially become a school, an office, and a gym.
  • Time to take care of ourselves while working overtime as an essential or at-home employee.

How We Experience Grief

How We Experience Grief

The events of the past year have dealt a major blow to most Americans’ social, familial, financial, and mental stability. As a result, many people admit to feeling robbed of an entire year of their lives. However, many others simply don’t know how they should feel or how to react during this time.

Breaking down the psychological aspects of the losses brought on by COVID-19 can seem simple when we’re considering others. Sometimes, however, we’re too close to our own emotions to properly identify the signals of distress.

If you’re not sure how you’re feeling in this uncertain time, here are some of the ways grief may actually be presenting itself in your life:

  • Disorganization
  • Thinking too much/too little
  • Sleep troubles
  • Lack of energy
  • Lack of motivation
  • Increased substance use

The Seven Stages of Grief

If you are unfamiliar with the way that grief works, how it presents itself, and what we do to process and get over it, the concept of the seven stages of grief is a great place to start. In 1969, psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, who worked closely with terminally ill patients, observed the effect of grief on the human psyche. Her theory, dubbed the Kübler-Ross method, suggested grief could essentially be divided into stages.

With this theory, we can begin to assess how people are dealing with the losses in their lives. Kübler-Ross believed the following stages occur after a loss:

  • Shock and Denial. When you first learn of a loss, your mind can go into a state of shock and deny the loss actually occurred, regardless of proof or explanation.
  • Pain and Guilt. Next, pain and guilt about the circumstances begin to set in gradually or can seemingly strike out of nowhere.
  • Anger and Bargaining. Once the loss starts to feel real, you may begin to feel angry or affronted by the unfair circumstances. You may feel like bargaining with a higher power to “fix” the situation, even when a loss is permanent and cannot be fixed.
  • Depression. When anger and bargaining are unproductive, depression often begins to take root, manifesting in several symptoms that can impair your ability to live life “as normal.”
  • The Upward Turn. When the sharpest emotional pains have eased into a dull ache, an upward turn indicates the pathway to healing is a little clearer.
  • Reconstruction and Working Through. Unpacking the loss with a clear mindset only comes with time and distance. Working through your loss with a mental health professional can help you frame your situation in a healthy light.
  • Acceptance and Hope. The light at the end of the tunnel: once you’ve reached acceptance, you are ready to move forward with the hope that things will eventually be okay.

Steps to Move Forward

When you are beginning your journey of healing through the grief of lost time, the first step is always self-care. Proper self-care is a cumulative process, so many small habits and lifestyle changes like deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation, focus, and intentionality are bricks helping to strengthen your emotional foundation. Just remember, foundations are little more than a solid structure you must further build upon.

Fortunately, many of us can benefit from the help of licensed mental health professionals. Therapists and counselors stand ready to help you work toward rebuilding your life the way you imagined it. Then, you can make peace with healing through the grief of lost time and find joy in looking forward to your future.

For those times when you are struggling even after establishing self-care routines and professional guidance, here are some tips to help you get through the grief of lost time in the moment:

  • Give yourself some recognition. Remind yourself of all the difficulties you’ve overcome. This past year has been difficult, so focus on the steps you’ve taken to get through it.
  • Don’t avoid your grief. Setting aside time to take stock of your losses and parse through how you feel about them outside of a stressful or triggering environment is important to be able to look at them objectively.
  • Don’t shoot the messenger. While you’re experiencing loss, your brain generates the signals but your emotions are just the messenger—and they’re trying to tell you something. Don’t shut them out. Not allowing yourself to process your emotions can result in a buildup of anxiety, resentment, and more.
  • When in doubt, time it out. If you’re worried taking the time to let yourself feel grief will completely derail your day, try setting a timer. The moment you feel an episode of overwhelming emotions coming on, look at a clock and allow yourself a set amount of time to deal with it. Spend that time acknowledging your feelings, give them room to breathe, and pull yourself back into the present when time is up. Deep breathing can help with the transition back to a clearer mindset.
  • Avoid “doom scrolling.” Try to strike a balance between keeping up with current events while dealing with your emotions and practicing self-care. If you find yourself scrolling endlessly down a social media feed, reading story after story of depressing news, close those apps/tabs and go get some fresh air.

Take Care of Yourself… and Each Other

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As we continue the transition into a more normal, post-COVID-19 world, it is important to remember that it is okay to experience feelings of grief, whether over lost time with loved ones who have passed from the virus or simply loss of what could have been over this past year. Stay mindful of these losses, acknowledge your feelings about them, practice self-care, and remain compassionate as others travel the same path. Along with professional counseling, these steps are key to maintaining mental health as we come back together once again.

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If You’re Mourning Lost Time Right Now, You’re Not the Only One

By Lauren Krouse

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When I  started therapy last year, I knew I had a lot to process. I felt stuck in a shame-drenched loop of depression and anxiety, and I wanted to figure out how childhood  trauma and an  abusive relationship were still wreaking havoc on my life many years later. I envisioned myself mining my past to identify and break harmful patterns. About a month into therapy, one part of the journey surprised me: I was swallowed by overwhelming grief over all the  time I’d lost to my mental health and relationship struggles. “I didn’t know just how much I’d have to mourn,” I told my therapist.

She nodded. This, too, was part of the process. As I learned, I wasn’t just working through painful past experiences and their reverberating effects. I also needed to grieve the “normal” childhood I didn’t get to have, the year I’d wasted trying to help my abuser as he tore me down, and the many memories I wasn’t able to make because, to cope and eventually heal, I had to distance myself from some of my family members. Other losses, like deaths of  pets and  loved ones , as well as  pandemic-related cancellations , only dialed up my feelings of grief over time that’s been irrevocably lost.

If you’re mourning lost time, it can feel really hard to describe or share—but you’re not alone.

In the past three years in the US, we’ve lost more than 1.1 million people to COVID-19 and hundreds of thousands of others to other diseases, suicide, drug overdoses, and  gun violence . We’ve had to cancel birthday parties, graduation ceremonies,  weddings , bedside goodbyes, funerals, and so much more. Each of these losses marks lost time as well—in dashed plans and dreamed futures we never got to experience.

Many of us have a lot to mourn right now, but we may also be able to see and honor our time grief better than we could before. “The pandemic-initiated shutdowns and slowdowns seemed to raise consciousness around time as a relational force to which we are more strongly bonded than we previously realized,”  Nyasha Grayman, PhD , a Baltimore-based therapist who specializes in grief counseling, tells SELF. When I put a call out on Twitter for stories about grieving lost time,  responses poured in . People opened up about time stolen by untreated mental illness, chronic health conditions,  caregiving responsibilities , relentless school or work schedules, and career paths they wished they’d ditched sooner. 

“Grief related to loss of time can look like grieving any other permanent and significant loss,” Dr. Grayman says. The anguish can run deep, nag at you, and crash in and out of your life. And while you might be tempted to interpret the widely accepted “five stages of grief” framework as a sequential, universal path to healing, grieving is  not a linear process where you ascend from step to step, finally arriving at acceptance someday, as SELF previously reported. “It really does not work that way at all,”  Sherry Cormier, PhD , a bereavement trauma specialist and author of  Sweet Sorrow: Finding Enduring Wholeness After Loss and Grief , tells SELF.

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Rather, time grief tends to be cyclical, she says. Sometimes, the pain recedes and you can enjoy your life. Other times, a reminder of the loss hits you like a tsunami of despair, guilt, and regret. Waves of grief can and do become less intense, but—because grief is a deeply human experience that’s ultimately a reflection of what you love and value—it never really goes away either, Dr. Cormier says. Instead, you learn to move forward with it.

How to make the process of grieving lost time less painful

Grieving time isn’t an easy process and it can’t be hurried or forced. (And if it’s preventing you from functioning in your daily life, it might be time to  talk to a licensed therapist .) But there are a few expert-approved strategies that might help you feel a little bit better as you work through the loss. 

1. Really (truly) acknowledge and feel your grief.

As a society, we’re generally not great at honoring grief of any kind. The typical bereavement leave in the US is only three days. There’s also often an instinct to try to “fix” how you’re feeling with problem-solving. (See: the well-meaning friend who offers to set up a  dating app profile for you  right now  when what you need is to first reflect on time lost to a terrible relationship.) Despite good intentions, responses like this—from loved ones or yourself—typically aren’t helpful because they encourage you to push down uncomfortable feelings, which only delays the healing process, Dr. Cormier says.  

Immediately shifting into solutions mode might work in the short-term by distracting you or giving you a false sense of control over your situation. But, like a physical wound, that pain doesn’t go away and is likely to start panging with greater intensity if you ignore it, Dr. Cormier says.

The reverse is true too, though: Psychologists  have found that painful feelings may begin to die down when you express them. That’s why step one is to acknowledge and reflect on your grief,  Mekel Harris, PhD , a Memphis-based licensed psychologist, tells SELF. You might ask yourself: What have I lost? How has it affected me? What have the consequences been? How has this hurt me? This type of self-reflection can help you  let out some anger or sadness you’re holding inside and begin to accept your situation, Dr. Harris says. You might  journal about your feelings (or try a  journaling alternative like recording voice notes), confide in a trusted friend, or talk things out with a therapist.  

You can also try  meditating or moving your body—gently stretching, dancing,  running , going for a walk outside—to release pent-up emotions and tension. Whatever activity you choose, try to be intentional and schedule a specific block of time to address your grief, even if it’s only five minutes once per week to start (you’re more likely to do it if it’s on your calendar, Dr. Harris says).

“The acknowledgement of our pain, the acceptance that grief will be a companion for us over time, and the ability to  sit in that discomfort are very important to start with,” Dr. Harris says. In order to work through and learn from your grief, you first have to gradually stop avoiding it and open yourself up to it, she says.

2. Find balance between solitude and community.

“Many people in deep grief say, ‘I just want to go under the covers and hide,’” Dr. Cormier says. “That’s a common thing. And yet, if we hide too much, we won’t get the help we need from other people.” While alone time and self-care are important, and you might not feel like reaching out to loved ones every time you’re feeling low, you also  need other people to heal —whether that means leaning on your support system,  forging new connections , or both.

Reflect on what type of social connection would be most helpful for you—texting, calling, or meeting up with a close friend or family member, say. To protect yourself from unhelpful platitudes (“It was meant to be.” “Look on the bright side.”) and unsolicited advice (“What you need to do is…”), Dr. Cormier recommends being choosy about who you confide in and letting them know what you need up-front—a vent session, delivery pizza, going out for a distraction.

If you’re grieving lost time related to a specific experience or aspect of your identity—like time lost to  domestic violence , estrangement,  miscarriage , or coming out later in life—consider seeking out a support group where you can connect with people who are mourning similar things, Dr. Cormier says. You can  find a support group online , as SELF previously reported, or at a local counseling center, issue-specific agency, or community health center.  But if the group is making you feel worse or otherwise isn’t working for you—which happens—it’s also fine to walk away, says Dr. Cormier says.

Another option: Find like-minded people elsewhere—by, say, signing up for fitness classes, learning a new language,  pursuing a hobby that intrigues you, or joining a club, Dr. Cormier says. Even if the people you bond with aren’t going through the exact same things you are, relating to others who share a common interest can be incredibly healing, Dr. Cormier says. If you get connected with a group and it doesn’t feel right, step out and keep looking, she adds. It might take some trial-and-error to find your people.

3. Reframe your grief—eventually.

One of the most common themes in my conversations with experts and grievers alike has been the power of figuring out what lessons you can learn from your loss, or how to see it in a new way. “This doesn’t mean that you do away with or bypass grief, but that you begin to widen the frame around it to see something else within that picture,” Dr. Harris explains. “This practice allows us opportunities to make meaning, gain information about ourselves, and then engage in relationships differently because of our loss.”

An important note: The ability to zoom out comes gradually. As Dr. Harris works with clients, sometimes they’re not able to think about anything beyond their pain—normal and okay!—but, over time, she plants seeds that can grow into an expanded perspective, she says. For example, someone grieving memories they’ll never be able to make with a friend they’ve lost too soon may find they can honor their pal’s legacy, and keep it going, through new  friendships —approaching them with the same openness and generosity that made their friend so special. Or, if you’re hurting over time stolen by health challenges, you may find some solace in the fact that you’ve developed greater empathy for others in similar situations you might have not gained otherwise.

Big-picture perspectives like this can come from talking things out with a loved one, journaling, or simply reflecting on the past once you’ve gotten some distance from it. But if you feel stuck and like you could use more support, it can be helpful to reach out to a licensed therapist who specializes in grief. ( Psychology Today and  Inclusive Therapists both allow you to search specifically for grief therapists in your area. Here are some  tips on finding an affordable therapist or  a culturally competent therapist too.)

For my part, I’ve had to mourn the idealized version of my past and future. Some days are easier than others. But over the past few years, connecting and healing with survivors who have similar wounds has been some of the most meaningful and life-affirming work I’ve ever done. My heart aches for my past self—I never wanted to lose all that time, and I can never get it back. Also true: I’m grateful to be alive, to experience the full spectrum of human emotions in the present, and to know that I will not take the future unspooling ahead of me for granted.

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Marcel Proust made famous moments like his madeleine, when the taste of a cookie dipped in tea transports his narrator to an earlier time that had seemed lost forever. With its apt title, In Search of Lost Time , the novel announces its quest narrative with lost time as its goal. We follow the journey of a young man as he strives to become the writer he longs to be, and his journey entails discovering a sense of self in which past and present intertwine. The narrator is delayed in his goal by various digressions, including journeys into the worlds of the salons and of art. For this reason, the novel offers far more avenues for philosophical reflection than simply a meditation on time and identity. In Search of Lost Time includes meditations on love and jealousy, joy and suffering, the enchantments of art and the disillusionments of friendship. This volume brings together prominent philosophers and critics to illuminate these many themes. Eight essays treat a wide range of topics, including fiction, biography, temporality, music, love, jealousy, weather, and consciousness. One of the longest and most complex novels ever written, In Search of Lost Time has fascinated philosophers for decades. The contributors in this volume build upon earlier approaches to offer new avenues and directions for philosophical thought.

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom: A bittersweet ending for the DCEU

W hile these reshoots were extensive, the film still manages to end Arthur Curry’s journey in the DCEU before Gunn’s rebooted franchise kicks off in 2024. The story of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom details the titular hero’s battle with Black Manta, an antagonist from the first movie who returns for vengeance against Arthur Curry.

By the time of Aquaman 2’s post-credit scene, the conflict against Manta has come to a head. As the DCEU officially ends with Aquaman 2’s story, many will begin to wonder how the film’s own ending caps off the characters, stories, and emotional journeys of Jason Momoa’s superhero series.

Even with these lengthy reshoots, the movie concludes Arthur Curry’s DCEU adventure before Gunn’s revived series debuts in 2024. The protagonist of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom fights Black Manta, the antagonist from the first film who comes back to get revenge on Arthur Curry.

The battle with Manta has reached a fever pitch by the time of Aquaman 2’s post-credit sequence. Many will start to question how the film’s own conclusion wraps together the characters, narratives, and emotional journeys of Jason Momoa’s superhero series when the DCEU officially concludes with the story of Aquaman 2.

The endeavors of Black Manta to unearth the civilization that bears the title are the central idea of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Manta finds the menacing Black Trident in the start of the movie, marking the start of his adventure.

King Kordax, the brother of King Atlan, is embodied in the Trident. If Black Manta discovers the Lost Kingdom of Necrus and removes King Atlan’s curse, Kordax swears he will get retribution on Aquaman.

After Kordax’s brotherhood was lost, the curse saw Atlan condemn the whole Necrus civilization to a life of frozen ice, hiding beneath the Antarctic ice caps.

The Atlantean royal bloodline holds the key to Black Manta’s attempt to lift the curse placed on Necrus and King Kordax. Atlan first cast the curse by imprisoning Kordax and Necrus with blood magic.

Therefore, only a member of Atlan’s lineage—Atlanna, Arthur, Orm, or Arthur Jr.—could break it. In order to free Kordax and Necrus, Manta intended to kidnap Arthur Jr. and sacrifice the infant. This would give Manta the army he needs to finally vanquish Atlantis and his archenemy, as well as carry out his plan to assassinate Aquaman’s family.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom: A bittersweet farewell to the DCEU

After Arthur saves his son in the climax of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Black Manta and Arthur engage in combat. Aquaman defeats Manta before Orm is taken over by the spirit of Kordax.

By defeating Arthur and smearing his blood on the altar, Orm releases Kordax from his confinement. But Arthur stops Kordax’s malicious schemes once and for all by tossing both King Atlan’s and the Black Trident at the tyrant.

Following Kordax’s downfall and Necrus’ devastation, chaos ensues, drawing Black Manta into a crevice beneath the ice. Before Arthur extends his hand to save his life, he hangs on.

Refusing to accept Aquaman’s hand, Black Manta tumbles into the hole that Necrus is being drawn into, which appears to be infinite. It is highly doubtful that Black Manta survived the fall, given that he had lost the superhuman abilities bestowed upon him by the Black Trident.

The conclusion of Aquaman 2 ends the renowned comic book antagonist in the DCEU, neither confirming his death nor offering any indication that he lived.

One wonders why Manta did not hold Aquaman’s hand after the scene in which he appears to be plunging to his death. This is because of the first Aquaman film, which is where Manta’s animosity toward Arthur originally surfaced.

Arthur strikes a boat that Black Manta and his father’s pirate crew are operating in the first movie. After he vanquishes the pirates, the sea will judge Manta’s father.

Black Manta’s father promises his son as he passes away that he will kill Aquaman, a goal to which Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom are devoted. Manta refuses to shake hands with Arthur at the conclusion of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom because of his animosity against the latter.

The guy lets himself be claimed by the destruction of Necrus and would sooner die than take the hand of the man who killed his father. The revelation by Arthur that Atlantis exists to the surface world is one of the more significant story aspects of the conclusion of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

The Atlantean council forbids Arthur from doing this in a subplot of the movie, since the sea people hate people who live above the surface. Against the council’s intentions, Arthur believes that a relationship between Atlanteans and humans would be advantageous to both parties and that everyone should know about the undersea country.

This implies that the nations of Earth and the seven kingdoms of the sea will now start coexisting. Had the premise of Aquaman 3 been feasible, the third movie would have probably looked into this relationship. Sadly, the storylines that were promised by the Atlantean planet mingling with Earth’s population will never be investigated due to the 2024 DCU reboot.

The question of whether or not this was lifted from DC Comics arises when Atlantis is revealed to mankind in the conclusion of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. In the comics, Earthlings are aware of Atlantis’s existence, although they seldom ever take it seriously.

This was slightly altered by Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, who established Atlantis as a significant global force by having it join the UN. In DC Comics, Atlantis is far more independent, developing its civilization beneath the ocean’s surface and lending a hand to humans when needed thanks to Aquaman’s connections to the Justice League.

Aquaman’s Iron Man 2008 

The movie’s allusion to Iron Man is among Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’s funnier moments. Arthur addresses the Earthlings at the very conclusion of the movie, revealing the existence of Atlantis.

After concluding his speech, Arthur raises his arms in the air, leaps off the screen, and proclaims, “I am Aquaman,” looking directly into the camera. This alludes to the now-famous conclusion of Iron Man (2008), in which Tony Stark discloses to the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe his superhuman identity.

What The DCEU And DCU Means By The End Of Aquaman 2?

It’s still quite unclear what the conclusion of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom signifies for the DCEU and the forthcoming DCU. The lack of clarity surrounding the franchise’s integration into the DCU has been one of the main problems with the DCEU movies of 2023.

The fact that The Flash and Aquaman 2 both star the same actors in the DCEU as multiple key Justice League characters at the films’ conclusions only serves to further complicate matters.

The simpler explanation, though, is probably that the conclusion of Aquaman 2 won’t have any bearing on either property. In terms of the DCEU, the series came to a close with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

It has already been revealed that all of the DCEU Justice League members will be recast in Gunn’s DCU, which means that Aquaman’s entire future plot will be altered.

Thus, unless Jason Momoa’s version of the character appears in Gunn and Peter Safran’s universe—which is extremely unlikely—the conclusion of Aquaman 2 will not affect the future of the DCU.

The conclusion of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was criticized by many critics, who saw it as an underwhelming conclusion to the DCEU following more than 10 years of the saga. This is probably also partially because of rumors that Aquaman 2 changes were made public while the movie was being made.

This could have given some potential viewers the idea that the last DCEU movie was changing to fit the ending of this specific era rather than ending on a note that was essentially unrelated to the rest of the franchise.

Even if Aquaman 2’s conclusion won’t have a significant effect on the DCU in the future, it has a deeper thematic significance. The construction of bridges is the main motif that runs throughout the movie.

The conclusion of Aquaman 2 encapsulates the idea that establishing connections and fostering relationships can be advantageous for all parties involved, from Arthur’s bonding with Orm to Atlantis’s establishment of a link with the outside world.

Because the outcomes of these relationships will not be explored, the conclusion of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is both heartbreaking and appropriately suitable as it closes the gap between the DCEU and James Gunn’s revamped DCU.

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Go to the broken bridge near the fontaine research institute.

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To begin the quest, go southwest of New Fontaine Research Institute to the broken bridge. From there, look for Broglie near the wall; speaking with him will start the In Search of Lost Time South quest.

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You can alternatively go straight to the West and North towers before speaking with Broglie. Going to those locations first will also trigger the In Search of Lost Time West or North quests, depending on which tower you go.

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Head to the central processing station.

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The crossroads of time.

Armed with the Key of Kings, Sargon is finally ready to pass through the Simurgh Gate and face Vahram one final time at the summit of Mount Qaf. Below, you'll find a complete Walkthrough for wrapping up the final side quests in the Upper and Lower City, and entering the Royal Summit to defeat Vahram and beat the game.

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By now, you should have fully explored and found every collectible in the Tower of Silence. As you make your way back down from where King Darius was, you'll find that the door to the Upper City East is now open.

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Entering it, you'll find a balcony where Neith is, worried about the effects the Simurgh's powers are having on you.

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Grapple across the gap to where you fired the Celestial Arrow, and nearby you can talk to Alkara again about where your path leads.

Before we face the final fight, there's a few remaining chores to tidy up to fully 100% every region and complete every side quest.

Start by taking the Homa Statue above the Clockworks to the Night Temple down in the south of the Upper City. At this point, you should have found and completed all of the Architect's Mystery Puzzle Chests , and it's time we got our reward. Be sure to check our full guide if you're missing any here.

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In her chamber, Maryam will note that there is one last puzzle to solve, and it seems to be related to the symbols floating in a circle around the main platform. If you look closely, you'll find each symbol corresponds to a puzzle you've solved in Mount Qaf.

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Use the map, or the image above to note the number of each symbol, and shoot your arrows or swing your sword's Void Blade slash (don't use your Chakram or the multi-hits will ruin the order) at each symbol in sequential order, and the gateway to Maryam's Workshop will open.

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Your reward comes in the form of four different Collectible Lore Items spaced along Maryam's Workshop, and you can also speak to her in the workshop to gain her gratitude for interacting with her various puzzles and challenges.

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At the very end of the hall you'll find a balcony holding a Soma Tree Flower , netting you another full health bar upgrade!

Astronomical Mechanism - Upper City Collectible

Mathematical formula calculator - upper city collectible, official scroll: royal decree - upper city collectible, the architect and the king - upper city collectible, soma tree flower 1 - upper city treasure, the architect - side quest complete.

Head back to the Night Temple Homa Statue, and fast travel back to The Haven in the Lower City. Since we now have all the remaining Sand-Spirited Jars , you can finally return to the Prophecy Hall and fully complete the fresco on the wall, revealing a very ominous destiny for Sargon.

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At the very least, you'll gain yet another Soma Tree Flower for your trouble, increasing your maximum health by another full bar, and completing the side quest!

Soma Tree Flower 2 - Lower City Treasure

Prophecy of mount qaf - side quest complete.

We also finished defeating all of Ardashir's Lost Warriors across Mount Qaf, and in doing so revealed the place where General Ardashir himself was waiting for updates from his men.

As it turns out, he's been not too far from where we first started this quest, though we've explored the area previously and he wasn't keen on showing himself then.

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From the Prophecy Room, head underground and go left from the first Lost Warrior's body who gave use the side quest, and use your Chakram to teleport through the gate if you haven't done so previously.

Head down the shaft and use your Chakram teleport through the floor grate to find General Ardashir at last, who has also been corrupted by Mount Qaf, forcing your hand.

Boss Fight - General Ardashir

Ardashir indeed fights like the rest of his Lost Warriors, but can mix in a lot of powerful attacks. You should be ready for his regular thrusts or lunging jump attacks by now, which can be parried and countered.

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He also has a lot of tricks to employ against you, starting with a frost-imbued shield bash you'll want to dodge under and strike him from behind.

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He can also loose several explosive arrows, and these cannot be parried, so don't try to block, and instead slide under them or jump and dash overhead to get away from their explosive detonations.

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He has other ranged attackes like tossing a trio of axes in an arc, or tossing a javelin. These are best parried early on, as they'll gain random elemental properties as the fight goes on.

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The javelin can often trigger a lighting bolt once it hits the ground, and can lock your Athra for a small duration.

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Once his health gets lower, he'll start calling in attacks from many of the other Lost Warriors you've faced, including teleporting to opposite sides of the arena to hit you with long distance poison or lightning javelins that are hard to see coming.

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In addition to shooting more arrows, he can also imbue them with fire, often firing straight down in front of him to create a barrier of fire to dissuade you from charging him straight on.

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He can also imbue his throwing axes with lightning, and even call down a series of lightning strikes in front of him (but is vulnerable from behind if you are able to dash past them fast enough).

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His arrows will start coming out in trios and still explode, making them a lot harder to dodge -- especially at close range. Try to get behind him, use your Shadow of the Simurgh to teleport away, or get distance and jump between the gaps of the arrows. Be prepared for him to also teleport behind you when not moving from the sides of the arena to stab at you from the shadows.

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Finally, he can also toss out several explosive bombs, but he's not immune to you grabbing one with your Dimensional Claw to send right back at him.

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When the general finally falls, he'll leave behind a Xerxes Coin and Insignia of Persepolis of his own, as well as one last Soma Tree Petal , which should be the final piece of the last health bar for Sargon, 15 in total!!

Xerxes Coin 4 - Lower City

Soma tree petal 5 - lower city treasure, the lost warriors - side quest complete.

If you've been following along with our walkthrough, this victory means that Mount Qaf and its region are now fully explored, and all collectibles and treasures have been found! All that remains, is the finale...

Royal Corridors

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When you're ready to see the end, travel back to the top of the Upper City to meet with Neith, Artaban, and Prince Ghassan at the large sealed gate. After bidding them farewell you can use the Key of Kings to open the large palace doors and head inside.

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Only three long stairways separate you from the Simurgh Gate, and there's a few enemies in the way you'll need to clear a path through. The first stairway has two giant War Hawks awaiting your arrival, but a quick salvo of arrows followed by grappling up to them with the Fabric of Time will put them down before they can react.

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At the top of the stairs, you'll face your first gauntlet - a very short one that only consists of two Cursed Swordmasters and Citadel Sniper on the platform above. Jump up and take care of the ranged threat first so you can take on the others without distraction.

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On the next stair, more War Hawks will be joined by a few Cursed Swordmasters, but the same strategy as the first stair applies.

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At the top of the second stairway, the gauntlet gets tougher as a Cursed Swordmaster and Spearman are joined by two Citadel Snipers high up on opposite platforms. Quickly use your Fabric of Time to grapple up to the archers and take them out, then return below to deal with the slower threats.

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Once you reach the top of the stairs, you'll have one last chance to save at a Wak-Wak Tree, and unlock a Homa Statue should you need to make any last visits to fully upgrade your Amulets.

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You'll find Young Vahram outside the Simurgh Gate, who pleads for you to find a way to save his corrupted older self. Unfortunately, saving him will also include a lot of violence along the way.

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Once the cutscene ends, you'll find yourself in the titular Crossroads of Time. The Heart of the Simurgh is gone, and with it... the universe as you know it. Dire as things are, it's not yet time to call it quits.

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Grapple across the broken terrain to the right, and platform across until you find the final boss arena.

Final Boss Fight - Vahram the Immortal

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  • Recommended Amulets: Void Blade, Four Royal Stars, Will of Rostam, Gleaming Lion, Rukhsana's Gift
  • Recommended Upgrades: Swords and Bow +4, Potion Capacity and Efficiency +4
  • Recommended Athra Surges: Shabaz' Spirit, Rashnu's Judgement

Now that he's ascended to godhood, Vahram is sporting a very different look, and the moves to match his new status. This will be a very big endurance test, so having those 15 health bars and 5 health potions will go a long way to surviving this fight. Vahram has a lot of big deadly attacks that require a lot of good timing to avoid getting splattered, so understanding his moves can be key to winning the battle against a God.

In his first phase, he'll teleport around the arena using a variety of ranged attacks, preferring to strike indirectly when possible, meaning you'll have to do a lot of positioning to get your hits in.

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He often starts by teleporting directly above you in the middle, and will shoot out fiery orbs in a circle around him several times. These orbs can be dodged or even parried back at him, with a little practice you can make use of your Amulets to regenerate health and athra fairly reliably a few times while knocking the projectiles back at him.

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This also puts him in a perfect spot to use Shabaz' Spirit Athra Surge to deplete a chunk of his health bar for just a level 1 surge. It may seem like you're doing a lot more damage than usual, but take note - the fight is far from over.

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He also likes to create two sets of spike projectiles above and to one side of you. There will be a short delay before the trios of spikes fly outward, and you should use that time to jump diagonally toward and past them -- not away where their spread is harder to dodge. You can also snag one with your Dimensional Claw to shoot back at him when he reappears if you want to be cheeky.

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When he reappears in the center high up with two floating rings near him, he'll summon two giant flaming orbs that track your movement. These cannot be parried or grabbed with your Dimensional Claw so don't bother. Instead, let them come towards you in the center, and then grapple upwards next to him, hit him a few times with some aerial strikes, then dash to the side to avoid the orbs coming up from under you, or risk getting exploded.

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Be ready as you land from these attacks, as he often follows up by teleporting to one side of the arena, and prepares a giant beam of energy to blast out covering a huge section of the ground and air. Even double jumping won't be enough, so you'll either want to try dashing behind him the moment he appears, or immediately fling up your Chakram to teleport to it when the beam launches. In fact, it's not a bad idea to have a Shadow of the Simurgh teleport spot somewhere in the air at all times just in case!

One of his other indirect attacks will come as he appears in the center inside a large crystal shell. A large ring will appear around him, and slowly move inward and damage anything in its way, giving you two methods to counter:

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You can create a Shadow of the Simurgh spot near the outer ring and start attacking him in his crystal shell, pausing to teleport past the damaging ring (and creating a new teleport spot) before returning to attack.

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Or, you can simply run to the edge of the arena, outside of the ring entirely, and start firing as many arrows as you can. You won't take any damage this way, and your arrows can still pierce his crystal shell with enough hits.

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Either method will eventually break his shell, leaving him vulnerable on the ground for a few moments, which is a good time to score some big charged hits!

Learning how to counter each of these moves will help a ton, as you'll want to conserve your healing potions knocking down this health bar.

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Once he's down, the Heart of the Simurgh will appear, and you can try to carve away its protection... only for Vahram to rewind time and return to his previous form. Whoops.

He'll have a brand new health bar, and this time, he's bringing a giant godly sword into the mix. Luckily, not too much will change, and you can still carve away his health bar just as fast learning a few tricks.

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His main new moves with his flashy sword will come as he teleports to one side and tries to slice at you (which you can parry), and then teleports to the other side to try again (which you should also parry). In fact, his slow telegraphed attacks from teleporting to alternate sides gives you a lot of time to prepare a Rashnu's Judgement Athra Surge to take away a lot of his health with one big parry.

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After two teleports, his third will be his familiar spinning unblockable slash he used when he was mortal (albeit in a much larger radius), but you can still slide under him and counter when he hits the ground.

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He can also try stabbing you from above like he used to do in previous fights, but this time he'll put his full power on display by creating a line of copies. Whichever side he first appears at, run to the opposite side of the arena to stay one step ahead of the copies as they crash down.

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Vahram himself will slam down a moment after the last copy, giving you time to move to the side and jump up. Delay your descent by doing a double-jump and then dash, as you'll want to avoid his huge spinning slash, and counter by doing a downward slam on him.

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When Vahram gets angry enough, he'll start charging his sword in a brief scene, indicating you in that he's about to use his famous slashing attack. Part of the arena will fill with lines, and you'll have a moment to find the biggest gap to jump and hide in, or try to dash to the side to avoid the bulk of the lines before he triggers the attack.

He'll do this three times in a row, so keep moving and use all of your traversal abilities, including your Chakram teleport if needed to get out of their way. At the very least, getting hit by one won't trigger a scene where he eviscerates you.

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Be prepared -- as Vahram will always end his third slicing line attack by charging across the arena in a prolonged Reckless Attack.

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If you've been good at dodging the hits, this should leave you with enough time to turn and face him, and parry him to show off an awesome counter that deals a ton of damage!

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After countering his new and familiar moves, whittle his health down a second time and start cracking away at the Heart of the Simurgh, only for him to rewind time. Again.

In Phase three, Vahram's new tactic will be to create a copy of himself. Luckily this isn't as bad as it could be, as his copy won't always be around to cause trouble, but when it does, it will make things a lot more annoying.

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When he summons tons of flaming orbs in a circle around him, he'll now do so with double the amount, making things incredibly dicey to avoid. Unless you're very adept at timing, it's probably better not to try parrying, as you'll take increased damage if you don't time blocking the hurricane of projectiles, and trying to slide past them might be the better play.

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While his copy won't appear when he summons the two giant tracking orbs, two more orbs will appear after a few moments, limiting your movement by a lot. Try waiting for the first pair to hone in on you on the ground before grappling up, then remain in the middle by double-jumping until they fade to quickly drop to the ground to avoid the second pair coming in from the sides. A third pair will usually appear by this point down lower, so you can repeat the loop of luring them to the center before grappling upward.

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His final copy attack puts a spin on his downward slicing slam. This time he'll summon two copies spaced out to slam downwards in short intervals you'll need to dodge to the side of, waiting for the real Vahram to appear at the end to slide and jump above after he lands so you can avoid his follow-up spin.

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Beyond that, most of his moves will be the ones you're familiar with, so keep looking for ways to minimize damage taken, and maximize counter-attack opportunities like parrying his Reckless Attack.

Once he falls for a third time, things will start looking hopeless, until Sargon taps into his true power.

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For this final phase, you'll have unlimited power equal to the Soul of Gilgamesh. This means you move incredibly fast, can teleport or double jump rapidly several times instead of dashing, and deal a ton more damage.

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He'll throw everything he's got at you, but by now you've seen it all, and your increased movement options allow you to bypass a lot of his attacks.

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In particular, you can now easily dash and fly through the lines he creates to avoid his slashes, and then counter his Reckless Attack to cleave apart his health bar. Give him everything you've got, and hold nothing back to take him down one final time.

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Summoning the power of the Immortals, Sargon will one land one final Athra Surge blow that will knock some sense into Vahram at last.

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With one final dramatic scene, you'll have restored the Mighty Simurgh and the very universe itself, and saved all of Persia!

Congratulations, you've beaten Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown!

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After the credits roll, you'll be able to explore Mount Qaf to pick up any last collectibles you may have missed, or get a 100% completion rating - which also requires you to find or purchase all Amulets and upgrade them to a +2 rating.

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Well over a decade and a half later, the ending to "Lost" still comes with confusing baggage over whether the cast of characters had been "dead all along" ... and I'm here to reiterate that they most definitely weren't. The question isn't an unfair one, however, as a revisit of the finale makes it clear that — in classic "Lost" fashion — the characters hadn't truly been living until the very last moments of the series anyway.

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The unsettling question above, posed by Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan) at the end of the two-part pilot episode, set the tone for the rest of the series. As Jack, John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Kate Austin (Evangeline Lilly), James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway), Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), Hugo Reyes (Jorge Garcia), and the rest of the survivors scrambled to make sense of their unfriendly surroundings, this became the narrative driving force behind the first season(s) of "Lost." That implicit promise came with expectations of answering tantalizing questions like: what makes the island so special? Will the survivors could find a way off of it? And would they even survive long enough to do so? Polar bears, smoke monsters, the possibility of sinister "Others" inhabiting the island, and the group's ever-present suspicions of one another all combined to turn "Lost" into the weekly must-watch phenomenon that helped set the template for future pop culture hits like "Stranger Things" or "Game of Thrones."

But the idea that we only cared about the inexplicable events of the island because it was happening to  this specific group of characters was a reality that went unnoticed by far too many viewers at the time. The clever flashback structure that permeated each and every episode in the early seasons was meant to emphasize that fact, drawing a direct connection between the plot of any given episode and the interior lives of whichever character received the spotlight. Instead, many of us tended to focus on the shocking reveals, coincidental (or fateful?) near-misses between characters who didn't know each other just yet, and breadcrumbs of clues that made the world-building of the show so compelling in the first place. It was a classic example of viewers missing the forest for the trees, latching onto the surface-level joys of the series and neglecting to pay enough attention to the impressive character-building going on right underneath our noses.

It's true that the show itself became preoccupied by going down plot-specific rabbit holes in an increasingly trippy attempt to keep audiences engaged and ratings high, which shifts some of the blame off ourselves and onto Lindelof and Cuse's storytelling instincts. At the same time, however, the one consistent aspect throughout the show's run proved to be the ever-shifting dynamics and relationships between the cast. Back when it was normal for television to stretch beyond merely eight or 10 episodes a season, "Lost" took full advantage of every hour it had and put its characters through an ever-evolving journey that made their eventual fates resonate as much as they did. In that light, the profound disconnect between the two halves of the audience leading up to the conclusion can't quite be rationalized by any neat-and-tidy answers.

So how do we explain the ending of "Lost"? I'm glad you asked.

'See You in Another Life'

In retrospect, it's easier to see that "Lost" had been building up to some sort of release of pent-up energy for quite some time before the final season debuted — for better or worse. Seasons 3-5 provided some of the highest highs to be found throughout the show's entire run, but season 5 toyed with the idea of giving the remaining cast of core characters a blank slate and making it so that their flight never crashed onto the island in the first place. The sky-high expectations following the detonation of a timeline-cleansing atom bomb (it's ... tough to explain to the uninitiated) resulted in a concluding season that couldn't possibly live up to the theories and guesses that fans had already concocted in the interim, even if the rush to wind down the series hadn't led to several self-inflicted problems on a script level. Let's put it this way: the less we speak of Sayid's zombie-like role or Claire Littleton's (Emilie de Ravin) wasted appearances throughout the final stretch of episodes, the better!

Continuing the trend of prior seasons, the last season of "Lost" came up with the idea of "flash-sideways" peeks at what initially appeared to be an alternate universe where the bomb's detonation actually had  accomplished the job and Oceanic Flight 815 never crashed. The present-day events on the island had never been more confused or shockingly boring as they were here, leading the remaining cast on an oftentimes wheel-spinning journey that ultimately led to Jack and John Locke (who died but became reanimated by the island's original and malevolent deity. Again, it's a lot!) coming into their final conflict and Jack needing to fulfill his destiny by ... using a cork to plug a hole in a cave so that evil wouldn't consume the world.

As much as fans scoffed at this underwhelming reveal as to what purpose the show's main setting served all along, the final season drives home the fact that these characters were never more vibrant, alive, and truly themselves  until they met each other after the crash. Remember the depths that Jack, Kate, Sayid, and others sink to after they actually escaped the island and left the others stranded there in season 5? That speaks to just how integral a part they played in each other's lives, with audiences uncovering layer upon layer as we got to know each character at the same time that they got to know each other.

The final reveal that the flash-sideways interludes were actually a glimpse into the shared afterlife that the survivors created for each other well after their deaths — some in previous episodes, some long after the events of the finale — may have been too much to throw at audiences at the time. It was easy to mistake the (admittedly vague) explanation of how the action on the island took place before the events of the seemingly alternate universe, which is how the "They were dead the whole time!" narrative became the prevailing interpretation of the finale among some circles. They're dead in the flash-sideways, sure, but their reunion in that church to "move on" from their current purgatory is as striking and lively depiction of the afterlife that I've ever seen. It proves Desmond Hume's (Henry Ian Cusick) repeated catchphrase of "See you in another life" correct, in the end.

All these years later and with the benefit of hindsight, a rewatch of the finale reveals an ambitious ending that strove to prioritize full-circle character journeys over a rote exercise in providing solutions for mysteries. "Lost" will never win over all its previous fans, but its ending is a perfect example of how the destination can be just as meaningful as the journey.

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Ricki Lake’s Body Transformation Through the Years: Inside Her Weight Loss Journey

Ricki Lake Body Transformation Through the Years

Ricki Lake rose to fame in 1988’s Hairspray , playing self-proclaimed “pleasantly plump” leading lady Tracy Turnblad.

“Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career,” Lake told Good Morning America in December 2010 after she lost 130 pounds. “Through my adolescence and, you know, later teenage years, I got bigger and bigger and bigger. I had the worst, the worst eating habits.”

Lake’s weight has ebbed and flowed through the years. Joining Dancing With the Stars season 13 proved to be a helpful way to shed pounds.

“I’m working so hard. It’s a challenge to really push my body, but it’s so fun,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2011. “I’m using muscles I wouldn’t use in the gym or hiking, which is what I love to do. “Dancing doesn’t feel like working out … even though I’m covered in sweat!”

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Lake, who was partnered with pro Derek Hough on the ballroom competition, told Us that she attributed her weight loss to intense rehearsals and Freshology diet delivery meals.

More recently, Lake and husband Ross Burningham lost 30 pounds each after overhauling their diet and fitness regimens in late 2023. “I am so so proud of us. I feel amazing. I feel strong,” she wrote via Instagram in February 2024.

Keep scrolling to revisit Lake’s body transformation:

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Ricki Lake's Body Transformation Through the Years: Inside Her Weight Loss Journey

Ricki Lake rose to fame in 1988’s Hairspray , playing self-proclaimed “pleasantly plump” leading lady Tracy Turnblad.

“Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career,” Lake told Good Morning America in December 2010 after she lost 130 pounds. “Through my adolescence and, you know, later teenage years, I got bigger and bigger and bigger. I had the worst, the worst eating habits.”

Lake’s weight has ebbed and flowed through the years. Joining Dancing With the Stars season 13 proved to be a helpful way to shed pounds.

“I’m working so hard. It’s a challenge to really push my body, but it's so fun,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2011. “I'm using muscles I wouldn't use in the gym or hiking, which is what I love to do. “Dancing doesn't feel like working out … even though I'm covered in sweat!”

More recently, Lake and husband Ross Burningham lost 30 pounds each after overhauling their diet and fitness regimens in late 2023. “I am so so proud of us. I feel amazing. I feel strong,” she wrote via Instagram in February 2024.

Keep scrolling to revisit Lake’s body transformation:

journey of the lost time

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Lake played Tracy Turnblad in the first film adaptation of Hairspray when she was 19 years old. She weighed 200 pounds at the time.

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By 1993, Lake had lost more than 115 pounds.

“I was happy then. I'm just happier now. Clearly so much happier now that I can fit in this booth and not feel uncomfortable,” she told The New York Times . “Some people say I've sold out, you know. I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.” 

Lake’s eponymous talk show, The Ricki Lake Show , began that September when she was 24.

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Lake was all smiles at the 2000 Teen Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California.

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Credit: Courtesy of Ricki Lake/Instagram

Lake posed on the cover of Us Weekly in 2007, wearing a Norma Kamali one-piece bathing suit to flaunt her 100-pound slim-down.

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“I feel like I could lose about 15 pounds. I'm going to be careful,” she told Us before starting DWTS rehearsals in August. “It's going to be weird, because having dealt with weight issues my whole life and you think deprivation, starving yourself — but I can't do that if I'm dancing six hours a day. I'm just going to be really conscious of it. For the first time it won't be about the pounds, it'll be about strength and my body. I'm up for the challenge.” 

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Lake wore a fitted red dress at a 30th anniversary screening of Hairspray.

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Lake made a “commitment to [herself] to get healthier” in October alongside her husband, Burningham. The couple each lost 30 pounds.

“We did this without relying on a pharmaceutical,” she wrote via Instagram in February 2024. “But neither of us [was] pre-diabetic and both of us felt like we wanted to at least try and do it on our own. Being 55 and in perimenopause, I was a bit worried, that my body would not drop the lbs like it had in the past.”

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In February, Lake slipped into the same Norma Kamali swimsuit from her Us cover shoot 17 years earlier.

"I held onto this #NormaKamali one-piece for all these years wondering if I would ever be able to wear it again. 💪💥 ,” she wrote via Instagram .

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