ABSTRACT
Understandings in any field, disaster or other, share a common feature. They are from the onset until their very end incomplete. Almost every step into any study leads to as yet unthought of matters. They are not necessarily new insights, rather they are often underlying issues that had so far not been reflected upon. All those who have suffered great loss, such as in a disaster, experience flashbacks, sudden cognitive intrusive memory flares of particular scenes or items. They stem from the buried amalgam of emotion, the deprivation of what was, and the inexorable coming of the new. The biggest loss of all, of course, is not something tangible, but is identity. In and by itself, identity has no pictorial representation. Increasing in the twenty years since “The Worst of Times, the Best of Times” was written, one more ultimate phase is ensuing for some disaster survivors.
