Finished reading: The Cream of the Jest 📚. I do seem to be tearing through the James Branch Cabell lately. This one firmly ties his Lichfield novels into the wider Biography of Manuel series, with Cabell writing as the author Richard Harrowby about the author Felix Kennaston writing about the adventures of Horvendile and Ettarre, who appear elsewhere in the Biography. Beneath the comic story lie Cabell’s own speculations about life, love, and the purpose of a man.