One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don`t mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
- Colin BakerDreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
- Homer