The Cream of the Jest
- Subtitle
- A comedy of evasions
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1. THE CREAM OF THE JEST2. Preface3. I Introduces the Ageless Woman4. II Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country5. III Of the Double-Dealer’s Traffic With a Knave6. IV How the Double-Dealer Was of Two Minds7. V Treats of Maugis D’Aigremont’s Pottage8. VI Journeys End: With the Customary Unmasking9. I Of a Trifle Found in Twilight10. II Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende11. III Of Idle Speculations in a Library12. IV How There Was a Light in the Fog13. V Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix14. VI Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal15. VII Peculiar Conduct of a Personage16. VIII Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark17. I They Come to a High Place18. II Of the Sigil and One Use of It19. III Treats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons20. IV Local Laws of Nephelococcygia21. V Of Divers Fleshly Riddles22. VI In Pursuit of a Whisper23. VII Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably24. I Economic Considerations of Piety25. II Deals With Pen Scratches26. III By-Products of Rational Endeavor27. IV “Epper Si Muove”28. V Evolution of a Vestryman29. I Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency30. II Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times31. III Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall32. IV Horvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-le-Vicomte33. V Horvendile to Ettarre: In the Conciergerie34. VI Of One Enigma that Threatened to Prove Allegorical35. VII Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather36. I Sundry Disclosures of the Press37. II Considerations Toward Sunset38. III One Way of Elusion39. IV Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont40. V Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain