"But I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel – you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety – & even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
– Herman Melville
"But I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel – you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety – & even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
– Herman Melville
Unpublished Poems
Unpublished Poems
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940033027279 |
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| Publisher: | Brooklyn Arts Press |
| Publication date: | 01/28/2012 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 361 KB |