Excerpt from Unkwn Immortals: In the Northern City of Success From childhood I have had a special affection for certain queer people. And when I came to an age at which I could write about them, I found myself puzzled, because I knew instinctively that realism would be quite useless as a method of describing them. So I treated them in a manner of my own. It is t idealism; it is, as the reader will see, something more than idealism. Yet I claim that they are truly described, and that just the impression which they made upon my mind has been truly reproduced, at least for myself, upon paper in the form of words. I remember, as a very small child, visiting a lunatic asylum with my mother. Lunacy attracted me strangely; and to gain the experience which I required in order to sketch a lunatic in words, I signed on for the final lectures in a city asylum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.