Something about Eve: A comedy of fig-leaves

10 Wives at Caer Omn 77 11 The Glass People 83 12 Confusions of the Golden Travel 86 13 Colophon of a God 99 14 Evarvan of the Mirror 102

28 Fond Magics of Maya 215 29 Leucosia’s Singing 220 30 What Solomon Wanted 225 31 The Chivalry of Merlin 229 32 A Boy That Might As Well Be 238

33 Limitations of Gaston 247 34 Ambiguity of the Brown Man 255 35 Of Kalki and a Döoppelganger 259 36 Tannhäuser’s Troubled Eyes 263 37 Contentment of the Mislaid God 270

38 About the Past of a Bishop 281 39 Baptism of a Musgrave 294 40 On the Turn of a Leaf 298 41 Child of All Fathers 301 42 Theodorick Rides Forth 305 43 Economics of Redemption...

THESE shadows here are subtle: for they wait Like usurers that briefly lend the sun Disfavor and a stinted while to run With flaunting vigor through life’s large estate Of fire...

FOR some moments after he had materialized, and had become perceivable by human senses, the Sylan waited. He waited, looking down at the very busy, young, red-haired fellow who...

“That you may travel the more quickly, along a woman-haunted way, in your journeying toward your appointed goal,” this stranger began, “I have fetched a horse for you to ride up...

“A GOOD-MORNING to you, ma’am,” Gerald had begun. His horse was tethered to a palm-tree, and Horvendile was gone, so that there now was only the Princess to be considered. “And...

NOW Gerald mounted on the stallion Kalki, and Gerald traveled upon the way of gods and myths, down a valley of cedar-trees, into the realm of Glaum of the Haunting Eyes. The lan...

GERALD passed on, riding upon the stallion Kalki, down a valley of cedar-trees, into the realm of Tenjo of the Long Nose. This was the land of Lytreia, they told him. But, here...

GERALD passed on, still riding upon the silver stallion, which Evaine the Fox-Spirit had not, after all, demanded of him that morning as her promised honorarium. And the next pl...

GERALD, after they had dined, persuaded Maya of the Fair Breasts to permit him to rest over for supper also, now that his journeying was virtually complete. For beyond the home...

GERALD delayed his departure until Friday, because Gerald was cordially amused by the fond magics of Maya of the Fair Breasts. He regarded them, as he did her, through those ros...

IT WAS at this time, toward the middle of June, that Gaston Bulmer came from Lichfield. Gerald was sitting, as was his daily custom now, under the chestnut-tree beside the road...

SO GERALD stayed content enough, all through those pleasant summer days. It was odd to reflect that these days were counting as he did not know how many years in Lichfield. He w...

GERALD now was wandering among thick luminous gray mists, on a gray way which led through long quieted places. It led him to a weather-beaten pavilion of badly stained and tatte...

GERALD came thus into the library in which, no more than four months ago, as it appeared to him, he had quitted his natural body. Lights burned there, but the room was empty.