The Cracking of Certainty
There is a sound that no epoch survives: the splintering of certainty. In 1861, it was the visceral tearing of heavy silk—a howl that wrenched the white columns of Tara from the very moorings of history. “A Civilization gone with the wind…”, the 1939 film’s prologue famously murmured—a world destined to be found only in books, … Mehr The Cracking of Certainty