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Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

Kings, Heart, Moustache

James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com

I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

James Branch Cabell

Loyalty, Attitude, Heart

James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited