"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."
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Is there a better writer on American History alive than Timothy Egan?
His newspaper editorial on reverse immigration, grandchildren of Okies leaving California, is a little masterpiece.
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