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The Nightmare Had Triplets

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Branch Cabell
The Nightmare Had Triplets
The Nightmare Had Triplets

 

A trilogy
by
(James) Branch Cabell

 

consisting of the novels

 

SMIRT—SMITH—SMIRE

 

Compiled as one volume
for the enjoyment
of the reader.
Table of Contents
    
SMIRT
    
SMITH
    
SMIRE
SMIRT

 

An Urbane Nightmare

 

BY BRANCH CABELL

 

    “
He accepts that middle world in which men take no side in great conflicts, and decide no great causes, and make great refusals. He thus sets for himself the limits within which art, undisturbed by any moral ambition, does its most sincere and surest work.

 

NEW YORK: MCMXXXIV
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY

 

SMIRT
COPYRIGHT, 1934
BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FIRST PUBLISHED, MARCH, 1934
FOURTH EDITION, MARCH, 1934
For
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN

 

    Granting dullness might esteem
    Egoistic any dream
    Of an author’s loves and laurels,
    Rightly I recite its morals …

 

    Gifted, Smirt forever finds
    Everywhere inferior minds;
    Jesting, Smirt provokes insanely
    Each and all reared less urbanely;
    And, derided, Smirt derides.

 

    None the less, Smirt too decides
    Neither wit nor erudition
    Amply bolsters Smirt’s position …

 

    Thereupon, with heart unhurt,
    He perceives that Smirt stays Smirt,
    And attests this by imploring
    Naught of dullness save ignoring.
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