James Branch Cabell Quote

It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page lay unblurred before him, and he saw it with a clarity denied to other men of his generation.


Ch. 23 : Economic Considerations of Piety - The Cream of the Jest (1917)


It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page...

It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page...

It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page...

It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page...