"I believed it in the same way one of you might believe
there
are inhabitants in the planet Mars.
I knew once a Scotch sailmaker
who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
If you asked him for some idea how they looked and behaved,
he would get shy and mutter something about `walking on
all-fours.'
If you as much as smiled, he would--though a man of sixty--
offer to fight you."
Joseph Conrad Heart
of Darkness
"sometimes he said
when sleeping on the embankment
it had consoled him to look up at
mars or
Jupiter and think there were
probably embankment sleepers there.
he had a curious
theory about it
life on earth he
said is harsh because mars is poor in the necessities of
existence .
mars with it cold
climate and scanty water must be far poorer
and life corresponding harsher
where as on Earth you
are merely imprisoned
for stealing sixpence
on Mars you are
probably boiled alive"
George Orwell down
and out in Paris and London
two unexpected science
fiction quotations from
unrelated works of English
literature
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