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Many Puzzles Of The Oddyssey
The «Odyssey» (as every one knows) abounds in passages borrowed from the «Iliad»; I had wished to print these in a slightly different type, with marginal references to the «Iliad,» and had marked them to this end in my MS.…
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Omnilingual
To translate writings, you need a key to the code — and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born … how could the Martian be translated?
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The House On The Borderland
Right away in the west of Ireland lies a tiny hamlet called Kraighten. It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill.
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Some Seasons Later
I admit that even among amateurs this is rather small talk, but it brings me to this point: in the passage of water down a ravine of its own making, this line of Nature astir may repeat itself again and…
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The Windows of Absolute Night
To most minds mystery is more fascinating than science. But when science itself leads straight up to the borders of mystery and there comes to a dead stop, saying, «At present I can no longer see my way,» the force…
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First Days In The Eternal City
My strange, and perhaps whimsical, incognito proves useful to me in many ways that I never should have thought of.
