The soul is given to pressure, in some ways inevitably so even, and lose a portion of its integrity in the balance. The cost of building a home, maintaining it, repairing it, the superficial obstacles of hiring a mechanic, of negotiating for a better cellphone plan. Most dearly, the soul, the individual, bargains with its very self for a small share of a popular culture. in this case: America after 1900, give or take. The faiths were quite divided and simplified by that juncture, but not the churches. Churches were hardly more than private clubs at the time I'm writing of: personalized shrines of one's faith to that faith, that taller organization of lesser stones. And by the end of the 1960s -- not a day later -- the inferno where Commitment was harshly challenged by Reality set any reliable trace backwards to its original roots into the cruel ashes and ho...
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