Kennaston could find in the past — even he, who was privileged to view the past in its actuality, rather than through the distorting media of books and national pride — no suggestion as to what, if anything, he was expected to do while his physical life lasted, or to what, if anything, this life was a prelude. Yet that today was only a dull overture to tomorrow seemed in mankind an instinctive belief. All life everywhere, as all people spent it, was in preparation for something that was to happen tomorrow.


Ch. 27 : Evolution of a Vestryman - The Cream of the Jest (1917)

James Branch Cabell Quotes

Kennaston could find in the past — even he, who was privileged to view the past in its actuality, rather than through the distorting media of books ...

Kennaston could find in the past — even he, who was privileged to view the past in its actuality, rather than through the distorting media of books ...

Kennaston could find in the past — even he, who was privileged to view the past in its actuality, rather than through the distorting media of books ...

Kennaston could find in the past — even he, who was privileged to view the past in its actuality, rather than through the distorting media of books ...