Ravaged

February 22, 2025

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Nothings

A short corollary to December’s ramble on Apollo: Melville’s “The Ravaged Villa.”

It’s easy to mourn what could have been when Melville took his post-Moby-Dick hiatus from fiction, just as easy as it is to lose sight of what we got when he shifted to poetry. His trajectory from Mardi to Pierre to Confidence-Man is one of the great mystical turns in art.

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Thought:

“We’re alone
on a lonely island.
Waiting for a ship
that may not arrive.”

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