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> # A curious, singular and enchanting book. I have read it with admiration and delight.

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## More from James Branch Cabell

1. > A book of dreams it is, and of very wonderful dreams.

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2. > Surely the cosmic irony that loves men's dullness because it alone can preserve them from madness, and retorts upon the cosmic terrors with a jest, is higher t…

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