Adam Flemming Petty writes over on Electric Literature about the literature of ruins:
This perception of antiquities as fragile rather than permanent, and all the more affecting for their fragility, is common in literature. Writers have often found their imaginations piqued when encountering the broken, the cracked, the falling-apart. The stories that ruins tell are incomplete, fragmentary, and the literary imagination is often compelled to fill in the gaps of fractured narratives.
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