THORNHOPE POPULATION 850 HOME OF THE MARS ROCKET

To express strange ideas in a strange experimental narrative format would be the same as "tell[ing] how odd things struck odd people" as Lewis describes. It would be "to have an oddity too much".

The elephants were better; / the gray pebbly skin was quite realistic, and if / the creatures had just been a little bigger, / the simulation would have been almost uncanny.