Something About Eve by James Branch Cabell

[Joseph]

I'll be picking it up soon, but I have a couple others to get through first. (Also, I'm waiting for my reading copy to show up in the mail.)

[Joseph]

OK, I read the introduction and the first chapter or two. Honestly, my chief thought at this point is that I really wish this one was available for Kindle -- I haven't read a physical book in two or three months.

[Joseph]

My BAF copy is in kind of rough shape, so I ordered the Del Rey edition, which is an exact reprint of BAF except for the cover, and which turned out to be a really, really nice copy, aside from not being actual BAF.

And "Mispec Moor" is "Compromise". That's one of the few anagrams I know, although I know it because I read it somewhere, not because I worked it out.

Glad they kept the Pape illustrations, although the frontispiece is ... unsubtle.

[Joseph]

Randolph wrote: "The long nose illustrations are humorously euphemistic. Was this book banned as was Jurgen? It is pretty racy for its time.

Compromise makes so much sense. It's odd I didn't get it given the conte..."

I don't think it was banned? I assume that if that had been the case, Carter would've mentioned it in his introduction.

(Which reminds me: I've read all of the Cabell in the BAF, but I still haven't read Jurgen.)

[Joseph]

Anagrams:

(view spoiler)[Doonham = Manhood
Dersam = Dreams
Turoine = Routine
Mispec Moor = Compromise
Suskind = Unkiss'd (hide spoiler)]

I'm sure I missed about a million others, especially some of those women with names like Ev-something.