“James Branch Cabell made this book so that he who wills may read the story of mans eternally unsatisfied hunger in search of beauty.”

— James Branch Cabell , book The Cream of the Jest

Afterpiece : a hidden inscription on the Sigil of Scoteia (and so spelled, in a peculiar modification of Roman capital letters)
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Context: James Branch Cabell made this book so that he who wills may read the story of mans eternally unsatisfied hunger in search of beauty. Ettarre stays inaccessible always and her lovliness is his to look on only in his dreams. All men she must evade at the last and many ar the ways of her elusion.

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American author 1879–1958

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