Talk:James Branch Cabell

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Romance languages
Greek isn't a Romance language! -Branddobbe 18:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Quotations
The first quote reads as follows: For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare."[1] Something is fundamentally wrong here. Veracity (truth) is the unpardonable sin? Consider T.H. Huxley's variant: “The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.” John M. Barry, The Great Influenza, p. 13. Perhaps the some words are missing from the quote and it should read: "Offenses against veracity. . . .?" Can someone look up the quote and make the correction? Menckenire (talk) 22:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Surely you know how to use a search engine. The quote is correct. The text in Cabell says: "For, as has been said before, an inveterate Sophocles notes clearly that veracity is the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare." You can find it in Between Dawn and Sunrise and Beyond Life.


 * Maybe this interpretation from Harold Bloom will illuminate it for you: "The ordinary doings of mankind are not the concern of the artist: "veracity is the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare." This is a denial of the importance of facts, not a denial of truth in the ultimate sense, "for in life no fact is received as truth until the percipient has conformed and colored it to suit his preferences." Carlstak (talk) 14:07, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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