Mardi Volume 1 Chapter 89 - Braid-Beard rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues

In which the inhabitants of Ohonoo, an island curiously named the Land of Rogues, reveal through the tale of Braid-Beard that their name is a proud heritage rather than a stigma, tracing back to banished knaves who founded a resolute commonwealth. Time itself is celebrated as the great alchemist that transforms and dignifies all things—scoundrels to heroes, old lands to venerable homes—while playful interjections on the nature of verse and prose lighten the discourse.