Approaching Cabell

Where should you begin with an author like Cabell? Should you pick a book and start reading? Should you first get a sense of the person and the times in which he lived? Here are some suggestions….

“We are being made into something quite unpredictable, I imagine: and through the purging and the smelting, we are sustained by an instinctive knowledge that we are being made into something better.”
—  Beyond Life