"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.---------
Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
At dinner Jay, bless him, toasted my ability "to combine spontaneity and organization" in our outing to the Albany area. We had worked in the New York State Library but not yet in the Troy Public Library.
Would that I had known you two at the time. It would have given me great pleasure to show Jay the registar's leather-bound volume detailing Melville's career at the Albany Academy!
At dinner Jay, bless him, toasted my ability "to combine spontaneity and organization" in our outing to the Albany area. We had worked in the New York State Library but not yet in the Troy Public Library.
ReplyDeleteWould that I had known you two at the time. It would have given me great pleasure to show Jay the registar's leather-bound volume detailing Melville's career at the Albany Academy!
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