Well, to continue on the analogy. You want to break them gently, don't go all out with a sledgehammer and kill everyone they love. Start small. If you just smash at a geode like that it'll just end up in pieces. Breaking one open like those in the image requires precision and a good understanding of how to do so.

"even his tragedies weren’t all that bleak"

So here's an actress playing Lavinia in Titus Andronicus:

She's had her hands cut off and her tongue cut out. I'm not going to go into detail about all of the other terrible things that happen to her, though I will say that her revenge involves cannibalism.

OW THE EDGE