...describing trauma as "a bad memory, and a method actress." This persistent labelling of the body as "an actor" strikes one as performative, but at the same time original and unique.
"An actor", of course, has less agency, less reality than "a person." This is performativity! But still "an actor" is everyman and all men compared to "a puppet". We are not puppeted by our trauma, despite being enacted by it, even on a mid-day afternoon.