In-Between: A disaster zone in London strikes poetic notes after concerning itself with doom

“Destruction is difficult,” wrote the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in his prison cell in 1932. “Indeed, it is as difficult as creation.” Gramsci had been sentenced for his political activities in 1926 by Mussolini’s fascist police. The prosecutor at his trial famously said: “For 20 years, we must stop this brain from functioning.” They did not manage it.