The Star Rover

By London, Jack

Book Id: WPLBN0000028322
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Star Rover
Author:	London, Jack
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
ALL my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of your childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming—ay, of forming and forgetting. You have forgotten much, my reader, and yet, as you read these lines, you remember dimly the hazy vistas of other times and places into which your child eyes peered. They seem dreams to you today. Yet, if they were dreams, dreamed then, whence the substance of them? Our dreams are grotesquely compounded of the things we know. The stuff of our sheerest dreams is the stuff of our experiences. As a child, a wee child, you dreamed you fell great heights; you dreamed you flew through the air as things of the air fly; you were vexed by crawling spiders and many-legged creatures of the slime; you heard other voices, saw other faces nightmarishly familiar, and gazed upon sunrises and sunsets other than you know now, looking back, you ever...

Table of Contents
· CHAPTER 1 · CHAPTER 2 · CHAPTER 3 · CHAPTER 4 · CHAPTER 5 · CHAPTER 6 · CHAPTER 7 · CHAPTER 8 · CHAPTER 9 · CHAPTER 10 · CHAPTER 11 · CHAPTER 12 · CHAPTER 13 · CHAPTER 14 · CHAPTER 15 · CHAPTER 16 · CHAPTER 17 · CHAPTER 18 · CHAPTER 19 · CHAPTER 20 · CHAPTER 21 · CHAPTER 22