I don’t know what got into me to decide to go back to publishing in regular journals.  For the past 9 months I’ve been writing about the situation here, for an interested audience.  But I had this article that I really liked about Melville’s epitaph on his grave called “I would prefer not to” and I thought I’d send it out.  So I picked the “Virginia Quarterly Review” because I’d published there once, and had been in touch once with the editor.  Within hours it was returned to me.  

That was last week.  It only occurred to me today that it was returned unread.