Weird Islands

Excerpt from Weird Islands
I heard this fantastic story for the first time on a summer evening, and I wish to share at once the pleasure that it gave me with others, of all ages and of all tastes. I must confess, though, that when I had once begun re-telling it, I thought more of the pleasure that it was giving myself than of the pleasure that it would give to others. But we all know that the joy we take in contemplating any work of art must be measured by the joy that went to the artist's creation of it. And certainly the Weird Islands has given me long weeks of genuine happiness. I wish I could have it with others; I wish others could have been there to help me while I worked, and while my friend improvised on his violin tunes as curious as Stravinsky's, and while my little green parrakeets nibbled at my brushes.
In re-telling these adventures, I did not adopt the form of a novel, because in that shape it would have taken six volumes to describe Weird Islands, and
because I was able to employ another means of description - drawing, which can show immediately people and objects in a way that it would take several pages to describe. Until to-day no one has attempted to combine these two mediums in a precise and absolute manner. This is not a book in which the drawings repeat and illustrate what the text has told.
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