But at last the great place that formed a background to our movementsasserted itself. It became apparent that the source of much, at least, ofthe tumult of sounds which had filled our ears ever since we had recoveredfrom the stupefaction of the fungus was a vast mass of machinery in activemovement, whose flying and whirling parts were visible indistinctly overthe heads and between the bodies of the Selenites who walked about us.
A Hitherto Unpublished Letter from Walter Pater. Charlotte Bronte's... read more
