The Devil and The Tower

The arrangement and the moment it stops holding. The Devil is a situation maintained past its usefulness; The Tower is what maintenance eventually costs. Traditionally read as a collapse that was structural rather than accidental.

A pattern that broke rather than a relationship that failed. The pair is associated with the point at which something unsaid stops being possible to leave unsaid.

An arrangement that depended on nobody looking closely. The tradition does not read this as bad luck.

What came down was load-bearing for something you had already decided not to look at. That is the part worth the attention, not the event.