TO ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE THE READER BELIEVE THAT IF THIS BOOK IS SUCH AS IT
IS, IT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE AUTHOR
One does not write the books one wants to.
_Journal des Goncourt._
_The history of Leda made such a great stir and covered Tyndarus with
so much glory that Minos was not much disturbed to hear Pasiphaë say to
him: “It can’t be helped. I do not like men.”_
_But later: “It is very provoking (and it has not been easy!) I trusted
that a God had hidden there. If Zeus had done his share I should have
produced a Dioscurus; thanks to this animal, I have only given birth to
a calf.”_
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