Attempting to rationalize how, and predict when rupture occurs in a solid has been a frustrating exercise since the early 19th century post-Cauchy dawn of fracture mechanics. I will attempt to offer a view of fracture that is intimately tied to a more general view of defect modeling in solids with an emphasis on the equally frustrating interplay with available mathematics. I will end with a vision of the current disarray that fracture mechanics shares with solid mechanics in the large.