Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

 

Sherlock Holmes

 

 

 

Thanks to Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells,

James Matthew Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle

and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Also thanks to Stan Lee, who created a world,

and to Alan Moore, who rocked its foundations.

But. above all, thanks to the Three Fairies,

and to the Master of the Air.

 

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