Author: Paul Goldstein
Cites
- Herman Melville (1)
- IN: Havana Requiem (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "You are saved," cried Captain Delano, more and more astonished and pained; "you are saved: what has cast such a shadow upon you?"
"The negro."
There was silence, while the moody man sat, slowly and unconsciously gathering his mantle about him, as if it were a pall.
There was no more conversation that day.
FROM: Benito Cereno, (1855), Novel, US