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The Purple Cloud

The Purple Cloud

M. P. Shiel

Paperback

Science FictionClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 1717377025
ISBN13: 9781717377029
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 25 2018
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.38 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Well, the memory seems to be getting rather impaired now, rather weak. What, for instance, was the name of that parson who preached, just before the Boreal set out, about the wickedness of any further attempt to reach the North Pole? I have forgotten! Yet four years ago it was familiar to me as my own name. Things which took place before the voyage seem to be getting a little cloudy in the memory now. I have sat here, in the loggia of this Cornish villa, to write down some sort of account of what has happened-God knows why, since no eye can ever read it-and at the very beginning I cannot remember the parson's name. He was a strange sort of man surely, a Scotchman from Ayrshire, big and gaunt, with tawny hair. He used to go about London streets in shough and rough-spun clothes, a plaid flung from one shoulder. Once I saw him in Holborn with his rather wild stalk, frowning and muttering to himself.

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