I Have Discovered That The World Over,

I Had This Story From One Who Had No Business To Tell It To Me, Or To Any Other. I May Credit The Seductive Influence Of An Old Vintage Upon The Narrator For The Beginning Of It, And My Own Skeptical Incredulity During The Days That Followed For The Balance Of The Strange Tale.

The Jungle Which Is Presided Over By Kudu, The Sun, Is A Very Different Jungle From That Of Goro, The Moon. The Diurnal Jungle Has Its Own Aspect--its Own Lights And Shades, Its Own Birds, Its Own Blooms, Its Own Beasts ... The Lights And Shades Of The Nocturnal Jungle Are As Different As One Might Imagine The Lights And Shades Of Another World To Differ From Those Of Our World.

Yes, I Was A Fool, But I Was In Love, And Though I Was Suffering The Greatest Misery I Had Ever Known I Would Not Have Had It Otherwise For All The Riches Of Barsoom. Such Is Love, And Such Are Lovers Wherever Love Is Known.

I Do Not Believe That I Am Made Of The Stuff Which Constitutes Heroes, Because, In All Of The Hundreds Of Instances That My Voluntary Acts Have Placed Me Face To Face With Death, I Cannot Recall A Single One Where Any Alternative Step To That I Took Occurred To Me Until Many Hours Later.

It Never Seems To Occur To Some People, That, Like Beauty, A Sense Of Humor May Sometimes Be Fatal.