Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
“We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.”
“HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.”