"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."
Thursday, September 19, 2019
"Samuel Johnson was no Mel Gibson"--said John Geirland
This was in the SMITHSONIAN in January 2007. This is a warning to us all not to write anything that can be taken out of context and held up to us all the rest of our miserable lives.
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