…We have them named after generals and things like that. This is a curious thing about our country. When you think of Melville, Mark Twain, Emerson, and go to the places where those men lived, there's no recognition of their having been there in street…

…We have them named after generals and things like that. No this is a curious thing about our country when you think of Melville, Mark Twain and Emerson and go to the places where those men lived, there's no recognition of their having been there in…

…today a trauma. He has had a traumatic experience in our own literature. The man who seems to me to represent this is Melville, brought up in lovely Upper New York state in a well to do agrarian environment. When his father dies, he's a youngster, goes…

…and they go to Liverpool and suddenly the suffering, the sickness the agony, the degradation of life strikes him and you know how Melville was the REST of his life. There's this Split between the beautiful surface of things and the sense of the evil, the…

…postures. And he suddenly sees them as aged and sick and dead. This is known as the graveyard vision. This is what Melville experienced: the immanence, the presence of death and decay and degradation in the picture world of life. And quietly he got up…