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  1. I think that unless a reviewer gets their facts completely wrong, the author should shut up (and even then, the author should probably let …
  2. A book of dreams it is, and of very wonderful dreams.
  3. The Silver Stallion, Jurgen, The High Place: Eighteen volumes of beautiful, worldly-wise writing by a forgotten American master. The books …
  4. A curious, singular and enchanting book. I have read it with admiration and delight.
  5. In the early part of the 20th century, there was a fantasy writer named James Branch Cabell who had a theory of writing as magic. His books…
  6. Surely the cosmic irony that loves men's dullness because it alone can preserve them from madness, and retorts upon the cosmic terrors with…
  7. There is an outcry against epoch-making masterpieces of philosophy like Jurgen. The salacious musical comedy goes its libidinous way rejoic…
  8. Cabell's Biography of Manuel had been structured as parallel examinations of three contrasting modes of life, the Way of the Artist, the Wa…

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