The Recalibration Paradox: ‘Nevermore’?

The recalibration under way

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…”

Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven,” 1845

Here, during London’s lockdown, we’ve seen many ravens. My wife, Fiona, recently reminded me of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” the much-adored lamentation for the lost and unknown. Repeatedly, a raven tells Poe’s protagonist that what’s gone is gone and that the departed…