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...main theme of his talk is the author's literary career, its rewards & punishments. On this subject he spares no sensibilities, not even his own, minces no words, without malice prepense. He does not hesitate to call a spade a dung-scoop or Pegasus a stallion. Among those writers who can damn the world's illusion with feint praise, Cabell holds, deserves to hold, high place...
...elaborate discussion of the inheritance of parental traits, we may very well turn to the experience of animal breeders, for example, those who raise mules. The diet of the equine mother differs considerably in various parts of the country, but the custom of breeding jacks to mares rather than stallions to jennets is universal, the stallion's colt is always too large for the jennet to bring into the world alive...
...more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud-horses of Vassar and the fillies of Harvard." Mr. De Casseres forgets that at times he himself is nothing more than a just-mad gelding going through the motions of an aphrodisiacal stallion. But that is the privilege of one whose prose and thought, to twist his own words, "is a boreal rhetoric, a hissing, headlong ecstasy, the passion that coils in verbs and nouns and suddenly leaps forth in an orgasm of adjectives and epithets...
...inconsistencies, they would drive a section man to the farthest reaches of insanity; they are so brilliant. One moment sexual love is the epitome of human force, the next it is a sex-stie. The silver stallion is continually fading into the mangy old grey mare, but his ideas as he gallops along are struck off like sparks from a flint...
...Henry Herbermann, president of American Export Lines, came a pair of Royal Arabs, Leila II and Ibn Nava, mare & stallion from the stables of Ahmed Fuad, King of Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, Cordova, Darfur...