What brought this up? I adored Cabell when I was in high school, not for his plots, but for his hypnotic language, for his worlds that were bigger and older and more complicated than my world, for everything I liked about fantasy and much of what I liked about science fiction (and then there was that obscenity thing, about the most absurd obscenity charge ever; the prosecutor must have forgotten to read the book prior to bringing the charge). The only one of his books I still own is Beyond Life.