"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."
In his book on Sendak Tony Kushner quoted my telling him that Sendak said in Pittsfield in 1991 he would do the cover of the biography, and did, and even did the two covers, not one. "A man of his word," Kushner quoted me as saying. That he is.
What a gift to my biography, and a gift to the depictions of Herman Melville!
In his book on Sendak Tony Kushner quoted my telling him that Sendak said in Pittsfield in 1991 he would do the cover of the biography, and did, and even did the two covers, not one. "A man of his word," Kushner quoted me as saying. That he is.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gift to my biography, and a gift to the depictions of Herman Melville!