Jurgen

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James Branch Cabell. Jurgen

Jurgen

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A FOREWORD: WHICH ASSERTS NOTHING. I WHY JURGEN DID THE MANLY THING. II ASSUMPTION OF A NOTED GARMENT. III THE GARDEN BETWEEN DAWN AND SUNRISE. IV THE DOROTHY WHO DID NOT UNDERSTAND. V REQUIREMENTS OF BREAD AND BUTTER. VI SHOWING THAT SEREDA IS FEMININE. VII OF COMPROMISES ON A WEDNESDAY. VIII OLD TOYS AND A NEW SHADOW. IX THE ORTHODOX RESCUE OF GUENEVERE. X PITIFUL DISGUISES OF THRAGNAR. XI APPEARANCE OF THE DUKE OF LOGREUS. XII EXCURSUS OF YOLANDE'S UNDOING. XIII PHILOSOPHY OF GOGYRVAN GAWR. XIV PRELIMINARY TACTICS OF DUKE JURGEN. XV OF COMPROMISES IN GLATHION. XVI DIVERS IMBROGLIOS OF KING SMOIT. XVII ABOUT A COCK THAT CROWED TOO SOON. XVIII WHY MERLIN TALKED IN TWILIGHT. XIX THE BROWN MAN WITH QUEER FEET. XX EFFICACY OF PRAYER. XXI HOW ANAÏTIS VOYAGED. XXII AS TO A VEIL THEY BROKE. XXIII SHORTCOMINGS OF PRINCE JURGEN. XXIV OF COMPROMISES IN COCAIGNE. XXV CANTRAPS OF THE MASTER PHILOLOGIST. XXVI IN TIME'S HOUR-GLASS. XXVII VEXATIOUS ESTATE OF QUEEN HELEN. XXVIII OF COMPROMISES IN LEUKÊ. XXIX CONCERNING HORVENDILE'S NONSENSE. XXX ECONOMICS OF KING JURGEN. XXXI THE FALL OF PSEUDOPOLIS. XXXII SUNDRY DEVICES OF THE PHILISTINES. XXXIII FAREWELL TO CHLORIS. XXXIV HOW EMPEROR JURGEN FARED INFERNALLY. XXXV WHAT GRANDFATHER SATAN REPORTED. XXXVI WHY COTH WAS CONTRADICTED. XXXVII INVENTION OF THE LOVELY VAMPIRE. XXXVIII AS TO APPLAUDED PRECEDENTS. XXXIX OF COMPROMISES IN HELL. XL THE ASCENSION OF POPE JURGEN. XLI OF COMPROMISES IN HEAVEN. XLII TWELVE THAT ARE FRETTED HOURLY. XLIII POSTURES BEFORE A SHADOW. XLIV IN THE MANAGER'S OFFICE. XLV THE FAITH OF GUENEVERE. XLVI THE DESIRE OF ANAÏTIS. XLVII THE VISION OF HELEN. XLVIII CANDID OPINIONS OF DAME LISA. XLIX OF THE COMPROMISE WITH KOSHCHEI. L THE MOMENT THAT DID NOT COUNT. A FOREWORD

JURGEN

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James Branch Cabell

A Comedy of Justice

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And a host of boys and girls did Jurgen see in the garden. And all the faces that Jurgen saw were young and glad and very lovely and quite heart-breakingly confident, as young persons beyond numbering came toward Jurgen and passed him there, in the first glow of dawn: so they all went exulting in the glory of their youth, and foreknowing life to be a puny antagonist from whom one might take very easily anything which one desired. And all passed in couples—"as though they came from the Ark," said Jurgen. But the Centaur said they followed a precedent which was far older than the Ark.

"For in this garden," said the Centaur, "each man that ever lived has sojourned for a little while, with no company save his illusions. I must tell you again that in this garden are encountered none but imaginary creatures. And stalwart persons take their hour of recreation here, and go hence unaccompanied, to become aldermen and respected merchants and bishops, and to be admired as captains upon prancing horses, or even as kings upon tall thrones; each in his station thinking not at all of the garden ever any more. But now and then come timid persons, Jurgen, who fear to leave this garden without an escort: so these must need go hence with one or another imaginary creature, to guide them about alleys and by-paths, because imaginary creatures find little nourishment in the public highways, and shun them. Thus must these timid persons skulk about obscurely with their diffident and skittish guides, and they do not ever venture willingly into the thronged places where men get horses and build thrones."

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