Talk:James Branch Cabell

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"What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it."

This quote was attributed to James Branch Cabell when I received it some 40 years ago.