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Above: Every autumn, I create a Halloween story, write it out on leaves (one word per leaf), photograph the leaves, and then abandon them where I found them. The story is then serialized here, starting on October 1 and concluding on the 31st--All Souls Day.
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Among the many reasons why readers of the 1920s were in awe of James Branch Cabell was his scholarly erudition. I just learned that in Beowulf, mistige moras means "misty moors." Once seen, an obvious source of his Mispec Moor.
Cabell was always great on place names but never better than here, for Mispec Moor is an anagram for Compromise. So at one and the same time, he was scholarly, romantic, and cynical.
Jimmy, I doff my hat to you.
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