인문 > 영미문학이론
화성으로 여행.The Book of Journeys to the Planet Mars or Our Mission to Ento,by Sara Weiss
책에보면 화성으로의 여행에 필요한 용어 언어 숫자 칼라색 이름 등이 새로 정리돼있음.
PREFACE.
To all who may be concerned in an endeavor to acquire information relating to
affairs beyond the range of physical vision we offer for consideration what may
be regarded as an incredible narrative of journeys to, and explorations of the
Planet known as Mars, and we entreat that you shall not pass unfriendly judgment
upon that which may impress you as a merely imaginative composition, but which,
in all sincerity, is a statement of facts.
Desiring to, as far as practicable, simplify the relation of this absolutely truthful
narrative, of a not unexampled undertaking, I, and others of the Evon-thia, have
thought it well to present it in colloquial form, as being more realistic than any
other mode of expression, and also we have thought it well, that only a limited
number of our numerous Band shall present themselves as actors, in what may
appear a fanciful drama.
We are aware that we might offer certain special pleadings, which, in many minds,
would induce favorable consideration of the unvarnished relation of our varied
experiences, but we prefer to leave to the more or less enlightened seekers after
truth, such verdict as their inner perceptions may accord, not only for the facts
and philosophy involved in the narrative, but also for the services of our intrepid
conscientious and faithful instrument, who, during nearly two years, devoted her
time, her energy and such ability, as she alone of Earth's sensitives, at this period
possesses, for the accomplishment of an object which long has concerned the
denizens of our and other spirit worlds, an object for which wittingly she became
re-embodied.
With occasional brief interruptions, our journeys to the Planet, astronomically
known as Mars, but to its inhabitants as Ento, which in the Ento language signifies
"chosen, or set apart," extended from October 6, 1892, to September 16, 1894.
During this period, through a rather rare phase of mediumship, which we term
semi-automatism, the objective, or soul consciousness of our instrument was
controlled to write certain observations and experiences, but through various
unavoidable conditions, the record was somewhat imperfect, fragmentary and
altogether too voluminous for the purpose in view. Hence, when after quite two
years, during which she gradually recovered from the devitalized condition, to
which her devotion to a most worthy object had reduced her, she expressed her
readiness to permit herself to pass under my control for the purpose of revising
the manuscript, the contents of which she was almost wholly ignorant, I found
myself a little dismayed over the magnitude of our mutual undertaking, which I
well knew would tax our endurance to the utmost, and certainly, only patient,
persistent endeavor on the part of our instrument, and myself, has resulted in
what, at the best, we all consider a not very satisfactory rendition of experiences
