The Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasions

The Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasions

MUCH has been written critically about Felix Kennaston since the disappearance of his singular personality from the field of contemporary writers; and Mr. Frosers Biography contains all it is necessary to know as to the facts of Kennastons life. Yet most readers of the Biography, I think, must have felt that the great change in Kennaston no long while after he came to forty yearthis sudden, almost unparalleled, conversion of a talent for tolerable verse into the full-fledged genius of Men Who Loved Alisonstays, after all, unexplained.... Hereinafter you have Kennastons own explanation. I do not know but that in hunting down one enigma it raises a bevy; but it, at worst, tells from his standpoint honestly how this change came about. You are to remember that the tale is pieced together, in part from social knowledge of the man, and in part from the notes I made as to what Felix xivKennaston in person told me, bit by bit, a year or two after events the tale commemorates. I had known the Kennastons for some while, with that continual shallow intimacy into which chance forces most country people with their near neighbors, before Kennaston ever spoke ofas he called the thingthe sigil. And, even then, it was as if with negligence he spoke, telling of what happenedor had appeared to happenand answering my questions, with simply dumbfounding personal unconcern. It all seemed indescribably indecent: and I marveled no little, I can remember, as I took my notes.... ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66146
Author: Cabell, James Branch
Release Date: Aug 26, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English