What Doesn’t Fall Apart

Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

It’s ironic that in “The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats, who considered himself more mystic than Christian (and no fan of Catholicism specifically), used images from the Book of Revelation as metaphor for post-World War I Europe:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…

Things were falling apa...