Much Darker Days

By: Lang, Andrew

WHEN this story of my life, or of such parts of it as are not deemed wholly unfit for publication, is read (and, no doubt, a public which devoured 'Scrawled Black' will stand almost anything), it will be found that I have sometimes acted without prim cautiousness-that I have, in fact, wallowed in crime. Stillicide and Mayhem I (rare old crimes ) are child's play to me, who have been an 'accessory after the fact ' In excuse, I can but plead two things-the excellence of the opportunity to do so, and the weakness of the resistance which my victim offered.If you cannot allow for these, throw the book out of the railway-carriage window You have paid your money, and to the verdict of your pale morality or absurd sense of art in fiction I am therefore absolutely indifferent. You are too angelic for me; I am too fiendish for you. Let us agree to differ. I say nothing about my boyhood. Twenty-five years ago a poor boy-but no matter. I was that boy I hurry on to the soaring period of manhood, 'when the strength, the nerve, the intellect is or should be at its height, ' or are or should be at their height, if you must have grammar in a Christmas Annual. My nerve was at its height: I was thirty

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JLHQKYS
• ISBN13: 9798688393989
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"