"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, March 17, 2020
85 Contains basket with 1990 drafts of V2 chapters taken up 1998 or so
I thought I had better make a draft of the 2nd volume just in case I was so saddened by what I had to tell that I could not write the first volume. The great problem was to keep the second volume from being relentless misery.
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