Pygmalion's Spectacles

Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

"But what is reality?"

Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

Jarvis stretched himself as luxuriously as he could in the cramped general quarters of the _Ares_.

Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

1 Pure Horror "That isn't what I mean," said Nicholas Devine, turning his eyes on his companion.

Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

Captain Harrison of the _Ares_ expedition turned away from the little telescope in the bow of the rocket.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.