"Don't you have the sense that we are living... if you can call that living... in a broken world? Yes, broken like a watch that has stopped."

These are words from a now-forgotten play written by an author who is also forgottena thinker swallowed by time, but who I rediscovered yesterday and who affected me.

Gabriel Marcels work The Broken World was published in 1933. The acclaimed script, which is more or less linked to Marcel's philosophy-he was o