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The first sentence uses the word catastrophe literally, as a declarative statement.

The second sentence is also a valid sentence, but not with a literal sense of the word catastrophe (unless the backpack contained a flask of a life-threatening toxin which broke upon falling to the floor). It uses catastrophe as a metaphor, as hyperbole, and as a melodramatic statement of someone self-centered and unaware of the world.

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