nor be comfortable in his unbelief

“Hawthorne on Melville: ‘He can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief; and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other.’ ”

(Paul Metcalf, from “Manacle Your Icicle”, p. 60 in From Quarry Road.)

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