Vondelkerk (designed by Pierre Cuypers) burns down at New Year's Night. In his Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia describes a society not undone by dramatic evil, but by emotional withdrawal. The characters in this novel sense that something is wrong yet choose comfort, irony, or distance over involvement. Indifference is not a personal defect so much as a historical condition: the failure to respond when response is still possible. Or even existentially necessary. Almost