"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."
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Jay Leyda in the Basement of the Troy Public Library 27 Sept. 1986
Jay Leyda reading a review of MOBY-DICK just found by Hershel Parker using the Leyda Wand.The surroundings were not precisely first rate, but at this point Jay said, "I would rather be here than in the Pierpont Morgan Library."
Jay Leyda reading a review of MOBY-DICK just found by Hershel Parker using the Leyda Wand.The surroundings were not precisely first rate, but at this point Jay said, "I would rather be here than in the Pierpont Morgan Library."
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