The Republic of the Southern Cross - And Other Stories #233075

He says in his preface to the second edition of that collection which bears the title The Axis of the Earth, the stories are written to show, in various ways, that there is no fixed boundary line between the world of reality and that of the imagination, between the dream ing and the waking world, life and fantasy that what we commonly call 'imaginary may be the greatest reality of the world, and that which all call reality the most dreadful delirium.