Gulliver of Mars

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Dare I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the love of a woman – for a chimera in female shape; for a pale, vapid ghost of woman-loveliness? At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I MUST write it – the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten