Daniel Davis-Williams — The Monarch Review

Notes From The Croatian Underground – Daniel Davis-Williams

Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:29 — 1 Comment

I once believed the Old World still thrived on the other side of the Atlantic. I pictured it sprawling across rolling hills and green pastures edged with virgin woods. I believed its cobbled streets still shined from the abrasions of horse shoes and wagon wheel. That Old World, grand and immutable, was inhabited by good, simple people. Even then I wouldn’t deny that this Old World was now suffused with modern tech and talk, but I doubted these modern intrusions had dimmed the celestial glow of castles and statues and institutions that had survived the hardships of time.