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1leoden
Mar 24, 2014, 3:20 am

Hi, I don't know how many of you have facebook pages, seems like everybody does now a days, if so I would like to invite you to check out; "Poictesme-or Fans Of James Branch Cabell Group". It seems to be quite lively right now and has an interesting cast of characters including the creator of the Frank Pape website I'm sure a lot of you have seen as well as some well known writers and critics. Besides this group its the only other group of Cabell fans that I know of on the internet and I thought some of you might enjoy it.

2elenchus
Mar 24, 2014, 9:24 am

I'm not on FB and don't plan to be, but I'm interested to read of topics or tidbits posted there, if anyone's willing to post them here. Regardless, I'm guardedly pleased such a group exists and appears to be somewhat active.

3paradoxosalpha
Mar 24, 2014, 10:28 am

I honestly wonder if the rate of |f| usage isn't lower among active LT users than among 'net users as a whole.

Anyhow, my sentiments here exactly tally with those of elenchus.

4leoden
Editado: Mar 26, 2014, 7:01 am

It took me about 10 minutes of checking out Benwaughs's Library to become a lifelong member of LT, I approached FB a whole lot more cautiously, using it at first to keep track of my children spread across the country. That was until I found a priceless page of Paul Rumsey's Art put up by his daughters, I started friending artist, writers, poets, critics, cartoonist, occultist, ethnobiologist, booksellers, bookcollectors, and a wide varities of eccentrics of all stripes. Lately I have hunted down some fan groups of classic weird writers I like; Dunsany, Blackwood, Machen, Howard, Cabell, ect., don't think we here on LT have the market cornered on love of good books, granted some of the stuff posted is below par but for instance the Ambrose Bierce Group is hosted by Don Swaim one of the foremost experts on Bierce alive. I understand FB might not be everybodys cup of tea but every morning I drink a cup coffee and have a river of beautiful pictures, thoughts, and interesting delights pour over me.

5elenchus
Mar 24, 2014, 3:29 pm

My biggest frustration is FB's peculiar combination of ubiquity and protectiveness. I wish I could review content considered "open and public" without having to log in or create an account. Since I can't, or haven't found a way to do so, I reluctantly let it go.

6leoden
Mar 24, 2014, 4:23 pm

I respect that as well as your taste and intellect thus the invite. Don't blame me for trying.

7elenchus
Mar 24, 2014, 9:32 pm

Oh, definitely appreciate knowing it's out there. And again, encourage you to post any tidbits here!

8Crypto-Willobie
Editado: Mar 25, 2014, 3:09 pm

That's a very interesting FB page. Actually there were/are 3 other Cabell pages and another Pocitesme page (not counting the one for "Poictesme" the VCU lit magazine) on FB -- one of which I created yonks ago, but none of which have had much action. This one looks like it should cook some. (And they're already snagging jacket images from our "Silver Stallion" Cabell website.) I can't post there yet since although it's an "open" group you have to Request to join and I guess that takes a day or two to sink in.

As to being on FB or not. I'm on it but I do very little there and nothing I don't want to. You can set up an account under a pseudonym and withhold all but the barest information and ignore any ads that might come your way. Essentially I look in once every couple weeks, see pics of my niece and nephew, etc. The exceptions are a couple fairly good group pages for Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies, and now this. FB don't make me no never mind. I hate that kinda shit but that just means I don't let it get in my way.

9elenchus
Mar 25, 2014, 2:17 pm

If the group drives a little traffic to Silver Stallion, that's a good thing in itself.

With Crypto-Willobie and leoden on the FB case, I'm confident I'll find out anything I need to know without creating an FB account of my own.

10Crypto-Willobie
Mar 25, 2014, 2:18 pm

I see this Poictesme group was started on FB in 2009 but did virtually nothing until mid 2013...

11Crypto-Willobie
Editado: Abr 1, 2014, 9:10 am

Unfortunately there isn't really a way to "re-post" entries, conversation, pics etc from FB onto here. So, short of an announcement that Manuel has actually returned to redeem us, or Cabell has won a posthumous Nobel, I don't foresee much importing from there to here.

I will note that Lovecraft scholar Dan Clore, Welsh surrealo-fantasist Rhys Hughes, and fantasy writer/editor/critic Darrell Schweitzer are already in the group...

12Crypto-Willobie
Mar 25, 2014, 3:58 pm

".... the only two books I've ever known my wife to weep over are Ethan Frome and The Rivet in Grandfather;s Neck...."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, December 1920

13elenchus
Mar 25, 2014, 11:44 pm

Love that FSF wouldn't see the need to mention the author of Rivet. Is it from correspondence or perhaps a published essay?

Pleased you posted it.

14Crypto-Willobie
Mar 26, 2014, 9:34 am

it's from a letter from FSF to JBC.
See Between Friends. page 213

Between Friends is a fascinating book -- not just letters from Cabell but both sides of correspondences, from just before Cream of the Jest (c.1915) to just after Jurgen's vindication (1922). Correspondents include Mencken, Machen, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, sinclair Lewis, Frances Newman, Joseph Hergesheimer, Guy Holt, Burton Rascoe, Carl van Vechten, Carl van Doren, Wm Rose Benet, George Jean Nathan, vincent Starrett, Hugh Walpole...

15rainlights
Editado: Abr 1, 2014, 4:12 am

Thanks for the notice! Same here, I really don't want to get involved too deep in Facebook, but I have a fake account I can use to have a look at groups like that. Still, I probably won't join them, but that's really just because of my dislike of FB, its layout and the little amount of control I have over there. The upside are of the course the pictures. So keep up the good work, and maybe we can exchange information on what happens where!