The Second Bell

There is a strange power in the little word correction . &#xA; It sounds so tidy. &#xA; A typo is corrected. A ledger is corrected. A mistaken claim is corrected. The word suggests that once the mark has been made, the world itself politely snaps back into shape. &#xA; But that is not how the world behaves. &#xA; The world is much more like a room with bad acoustics. One loud sentence can bounce…