Tuesday, March 24, 2015

delightful realities

Image Credit: The Nature Conservancy
"Ah! not long, bright Sweet Water, did we refrain thy tempting embrace: Thou wert a Lethe to the desert behind; all illusion faded from the delightful realities of thy bath." 
--August 1852 Scenes Beyond the Western Border;
and Scenes and Adventures in the Army

"Come, this little episode of fictitious estrangement will but enhance the delightful reality."  --Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man 

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