Reading The Cream of the Jest | Alexandria
Read The Cream of the Jest by James Branch Cabell. Dreaming your way into alternate realities might seem like fantasy, but in The Cream of the Jest, reality itself becomes suspect when a magic ring lets Felix Kennaston live two lives - one as a mundane husband, another as a medieval hero. Cabell's 1917 masterwork eerily anticipates our modern questions about consciousness, virtual worlds, and what constitutes "real" experience.