“ I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not as… William Hope Hodgson
“ I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. William Hope Hodgson
“ And then, suddenly, an extraordinary question rose in my mind, whether this stupendous globe of green fire might not be the vast Central Sun—the great sun, round which our universe and countless other… William Hope Hodgson
“ Moreover, they who returned, if any, would be flogged, as seemed proper, after due examination. And though the news of their beatings might help all others to hesitation, ere they did foolishly, in li… William Hope Hodgson
“ There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had been empty for a great while; years before his—the ancient man's—birth. It was… William Hope Hodgson
