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Why does this image haunt us? Perhaps because it speaks to the modern condition of disillusionment. We live in an era where the "Heavens" of the past—ideologies, certainties, the promise of progress—have been blacked out by the smoke of history, by the pollution of cynicism, or by the sheer weight of tragedy. We look up, raising our chins in the posture of hope, only to see a ceiling of soot. Hope Heaven Blacked