the reality was too real
"Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (December 1851): 729
But the Reality I think is too darkly, coldly real, the earth very earthy; but, to please you, mark—I now attempt a lower level.
The Byronic bit about reality being too real was deleted in the 1857 book Scenes and Adventures in the Army. Also cut in revision was the word "mark," corresponding to Melville's "mark" and "hark" in Moby-Dick. The book version keeps the Captain's "lower level" which parallels Ahab's "lower layer."
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