"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."
The wind blew the sand and the tides shifted the skeletons. Now Crabbie Bernie is back, battered and stolid, but not even a soft round skull is left of Sea Lyin' Ted.
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