James Branch Cabell Quote

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.


Horvendile, in Ch. 13 : What a Boy Thought - The Way of Ecben (1929)


I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three...

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three...

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three...

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three...