The Latin prefix “dis-” has a harsh, cutting energy. An analytical, cold force that, bearing down on us like a knight’s drawn sword on a tarot card, symbolically stops just before the word, the skin, the nape of the neck, and yet lacerates. “Dis-,” that conveys a grown-up, heartless power that overwhelms the child, the lover, and leaves them lonely and in despair. You may have done or dreamed something together, but that is all over now.