Memoirs of a Midget (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Mare, Walter de la) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Memoirs of a Midget At the same time, and for similar reasons, I decided that their publication should not take place until after my death. Instructions have therefore been left by me to this effect. Here then my editorial duties begin and end. Nothing has been altered; nothing suppressed. Even if such a task were within my province. I should not venture to make any critical estimate of Miss M.´s work. I am not a writer: and, as a reader, have an investigate preference to be allowed to study and enjoy my authors with as little external intervention as possible. The perusal of the Memoirs has afforded me the deepest possible pleasure. The serious-minded may none the less dismiss a midget´s lucubrations as trifling; and no doubt - it could hardly be otherwise - a more practised taste than mine will discover many faults, crudities, and inconsistencies in them, through certain little prejudices on Miss M.´s side may not be so easily detectable. Whatever their merits or imperfections may be. I should be happy to think that the following pages may prove as interesting to other readers - however few - as they have been to myself. My own prejudices, I confess, are in Miss M.´s favour. Indeed, she herself assured me in the covering letter to which reference has been made, that a chance word of mine had been her actual incentive to composition - the remark, in fact, that "the truth about even the least of things - e.g., your self, Miss M.! - may be a taper in whose beam one may peep at the truth about everything." I cannot recall the occasion, or this little apophthegm. Indeed, only with extreme reluctance would I have helped to launch my small friend on her gigantic ordeal. As a matter-of-fact, she had a little way of carrying off scraps of the conversation of the "common-sized," as a bee carries off a drop of nectar, and of transforming them into a honey all her own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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