Taboo

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Taboo is a book by James Branch Cabell, and the book calls itself a legend retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir. The contents list, among others, entries called Memoir of Saevius Nicanor and How the Garbage-Man Came with Forks. A speaker says that after fifteen years of foiled endeavors he and his publishers had virtually decided that the printing of his books was not likely ever to come under the head of a business venture.

Horvendile, yet in bewilderment, lamented, and he fled from the man of law. Horvendile goes into an academy where the faded old books of Philistia were stored, in order to learn what manner of writing was most honored by the Philistines. The colophon says that here, rather vexatiously, the old manuscript breaks off.

About the author

James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American author from Richmond, Virginia, best known for the elaborate fantasy cycle he called the Biography of the Life of Manuel. His ironic, ornate style won admirers including Mark Twain, and drew wide notoriety when Jurgen faced an obscenity trial.