James Branch Cabell made this book so that he who wills may read the story of mans [sic] eternally unsatisfied hunger in search of beauty. Ettarre stays inaccessible always and her lovliness [sic] is his to look on only in his dreams. All men she must evade at the last and many ar [sic] the ways of her elusion.

I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me - that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me …

The insect looked at Jurgen, and its pincers rose erect in horror. The bug cried to the three judges, - Now, by St. Anthony! this Jurgen must forthwith be rele…

It is true I have not told you everything. Why should I? No Author ever does....