Whenever I see this man-in-the-moon profile I think of the short-lived McDonald’s ad campaign featuring Mac Tonight. If you weren’t around watching TV in the 1980s you probably won’t have even heard of that fellow. The quote is from Edith Wharton’s long, and pretty much unreadable, poem “Versalius in Zante.”

Book: The Oxford Companion to American Literature

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