"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."
Friday, March 22, 2019
Reminded of the High Functioning Moron writer on Melville that Hayford called Chowderhead
I read today about the Dunning-Kruger effect: the psychological phenomenon that leads incompetent people to overestimate their ability because they can't grasp how much they don't know.
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