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history I cannot help feeling that Browning had us perhaps
unconsciously in mind when he wrote:

God's in his heaven: All's right with the world!



Chapter Two

CRISTOFER COLOMBO A Comedy of Discovery. In the Manner of James
Branch Cabell

In fourteen hundred ninety two In the city of Genoa.
--Old Song.

They of Genoa tell with a shrug how in the old days Cristofer
Colombo whom men called the Dreamer left Dame Colombo to go in
search of the land of his imagining.

And the tale tells how, on a twilight Thursday, Colombo walked
alone on the edge of a doubtful wood, and viewed many things not
salutary to notice. And there came to him one who was as
perversely tall as a certain unmentionable object and bearded in
a manner it is not convenient to describe.

But Colombo set about that which the stranger said was necessary
and when he had finished he drank the contents of the curious
skull as had been foretold on a certain All-Saints day. Then it
was that the stranger spoke.

"Whom are you", said he, "to be thus wandering in the very
unspeakable forest of the very unnamable sorcerer Thyrston?"

Said Colombo, "I have heard of this Thyrston. And while I do not
criticize, yet I cannot entirely agree with your improper use of
the pronoun WHOM, and oh my dear sir", said Colombo, "those two
VERYS would surely--oh, most surely--be mentioned in 'The Conning
Tower'."

"Eh!" said Thyrston, frowning.

"I allude", said Colombo, "to the scribbling of a certain Adams
with whom you are doubtless familiar, and of course, my dear
Thyrston", said Colombo, "I spoke only jestingly, for I am
Cristofer Colombo whom men call the Dreamer, and I go in search
of the land of my imagining and it is truly a pleasure to meet
the greatest sorcerer since Ckellyr, and how", said Colombo, "is
dear Mrs. Thyrston?"

Then Thyrston showed Colombo what was written on the insecure