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The Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasions

James Branch Cabell · Science-Fiction_and_Fantasy · 41 章

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THE CREAM OF THE JEST Contents Preface I Introduces the Ageless Woman II Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country III Of the Double-Dealer’s Traffic With a Knave IV How the Double-Dealer Was of Two Minds V Treats of Maugis D’Aigremont’s Pottage VI Journeys End: With the Customary Unmasking I Of a Trifle Found in Twilight II Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende III Of Idle Speculations in a Library IV How There Was a Light in the Fog V Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix VI Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal VII Peculiar Conduct of a Personage VIII Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark I They Come to a High Place II Of the Sigil and One Use of It III Treats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons IV Local Laws of Nephelococcygia V Of Divers Fleshly Riddles VI In Pursuit of a Whisper VII Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably I Economic Considerations of Piety II Deals With Pen Scratches III By-Products of Rational Endeavor IV “Epper Si Muove”V Evolution of a Vestryman I Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency II Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times III Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall IV Horvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-le-Vicomte V Horvendile to Ettarre: In the Conciergerie VI Of One Enigma that Threatened to Prove Allegorical VII Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather I Sundry Disclosures of the Press II Considerations Toward Sunset III One Way of Elusion IV Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE