Our friend Charles, proprietor of the website Liminality, shares with us his reaction to the deliberate destruction by fire of South Korea’s “Number One Treasure”, the ancient wooden gate known as Namdaemun.
I was reminded of our own shock and horror here in Gotham at the obliteration of the Twin Towers, although of course the two events are obviously quite different in important ways, first and foremost being that nobody was killed in the arson attack on Seoul’s historic landmark. But Charles’s post conveys the same sickening sense of the seemingly solid ground moving under one’s feet, of being confronted with the awful fact that all of our attachments are in vain.