...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet. [we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

Farber
"Once we understand the fundamentals of Mr. Fritz Leiber's Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Cabell is not a novelist at all in the common acceptance of the term but a historian of the human soul.

chase dragons precisely as stockbrockers play golf. Mencken disputes Cabell's claim to romanticism characterized him as "really the most acidulous of all the anti-romantics. " Interest in Cabell declined in the 1930s a decline that has been attributed in part to his failure to move out of his fantasy niche.