Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
Birthday: August 1
Death: September 28
But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.
source: Herman Melville (1856). “The Piazza Tales”, p.267
topic: Memories, Son, Past, Blue Sea, No Memory