This Giddy Globe Part 3

You’re reading novel This Giddy Globe Part 3 online at LightNovelFree.com. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit LightNovelFree.com. Use F11 button to read novel in full-screen(PC only). Drop by anytime you want to read free – fast – latest novel. It’s great if you could leave a comment, share your opinion about the new chapters, new novel with others on the internet. We’ll do our best to bring you the finest, latest novel everyday. Enjoy!

_Happy the man with the bulging Tum,_ _Who smiles and smiles and is never glum!--_ _But alas for the man with the bulging brow,_ _If he wanted to smile, he wouldn't know how!_

If the Giddy Globe asked _us_ to guess her age, we should say, without a moment's hesitation, "Whatever it is you certainly don't look it!"

Astronomers may say what they like, a Planet is as old as it looks, especially if it is a Lady-Planet, and we have seen ours when she didn't look a June day over sixteen! and, not having a bulging forehead, we told her so!

Astronomers think themselves so wise, but what do they know about the s.e.x of the Planets?

With the exception of Mother Earth and old Sol Phbus,--nothing!



If you asked an Astronomer whether the Pleiad girls were really the daughters of Atlas, or what Jupiter was doing with eight Moons (if they _were_ Moons), he would think you were trifling with him.

But is it not possible that the old Greek tales were the garbled gossip of an age-forgotten science of which we have only the A.B.C.?

If it is Love that makes the world go round (and who can prove that it isn't?), what makes the other Planets go round?

How about the movements of the Heavenly Bodies?

How about----*

* This is all very interesting, but don't you think perhaps it is---- _The Reader._

Quite right! Quite right! how we do run on!

[Ill.u.s.tration]

CHAPTER IX

THE FACE OF THE GLOBE

There are no good photographs of the Giddy Globe; she refuses to sit.

Imagine attempting to photograph an obese and flighty Spheroid who spends her time pirouetting round in a circle with all her might and main.

Perhaps it is to avoid the photographer that the Earth spins, and not merely to reduce her girth as we hinted elsewhere.

In these days such a strenuous evasion of publicity is suspicious.

Where does she come from?

Where is she going?

She refuses to answer, she will not even state her business or tell her real name.

For aeons (quite a number of aeons) this Giddy one has been going round under various male and female aliases such as--Cosmos, Mother Earth, The World, Mrs. Grundy, the Footstool, the Terrestrial Globe.

If you look up her record you will find the following press notices--

"The Earth's a thief."

Timon of Athens.

"Earth's bitter."

Wordsworth.

"This distracted Globe."

Hamlet.

"This tough World."

King Lear.

"Naughty World."

Merchant of Venice.

"This World is given to Lying."

Henry IV.

"The World is too much with us."

Wordsworth.

"The World is grown so bad."

Richard III.

"The narrow World."

Julius Caesar.

"The World is not thy friend."

Romeo and Juliet.

"The World's a bubble."

Bacon.

"This World is all a fleeting show."

Moore.

"The World was not worthy."

St. Paul.

"The World's a tragedy."

Horace Walpole.

"This bleak World."

Moore.

"The weary weight of all this unintelligible World."

Wordsworth.

This Giddy Globe Part 3

You're reading novel This Giddy Globe Part 3 online at LightNovelFree.com. You can use the follow function to bookmark your favorite novel ( Only for registered users ). If you find any errors ( broken links, can't load photos, etc.. ), Please let us know so we can fix it as soon as possible. And when you start a conversation or debate about a certain topic with other people, please do not offend them just because you don't like their opinions.


This Giddy Globe Part 3 summary

You're reading This Giddy Globe Part 3. This novel has been translated by Updating. Author: Oliver Herford already has 533 views.

It's great if you read and follow any novel on our website. We promise you that we'll bring you the latest, hottest novel everyday and FREE.

LightNovelFree.com is a most smartest website for reading novel online, it can automatic resize images to fit your pc screen, even on your mobile. Experience now by using your smartphone and access to LightNovelFree.com