Poictesme

James Branch Cabell, himself an arch-cynic, made that the motto of his fictitious pays of Poictesme, and for good reason: he was mocking everything within reach, and the whole Biography of the Life of Manuel constitutes a kind of reductio ad absurdum of the whole field of human behaviour and ambition.

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Under the Third Republic, after incredible efforts, Poictesme was finally brought into the department of Paresseux-et-Boueux.

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A lot of Richmonders found him incomprehensible and were unaware that he was poking fun at them in some of his profound writings about Poictesme.

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"We'll have to go back to Poictesme pretty soon," he said.

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And do you know what a fifteen-cc liqueur glass of Poictesme brandy sells for on Terra?

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But I am certain that Merlin exists, if not on Poictesme then somewhere in the

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Nobody was willing to do anything that might upset the precarious balance; everybody was talking about the bright future, when Merlin would guide Poictesme to ever greater and more splendid prosperity.

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"Conn, can you come back here to Poictesme for a while?" his father asked.

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Travis had learned that one of his great-granddaughter's guests was from Poictesme, he had insisted on talking to him.

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Conn found himself losing touch with affairs on Poictesme.

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