Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest....


Ch. 26 : "Epper Si Muove" [this chapter title is derived from a purported comment of Galileo: Eppur Si Muove "And yet it moves."] - The Cream of the Jest (1917)

James Branch Cabell Quotes

Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and...

Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and...

Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and...

Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and...