Give me your pardon, sir: i have done you wrong: but pardon't, as you are a gentleman. this presence knows, and you must needs have heard, how i am punish'd with sore distraction. what i have done that might your nature, honour, and exception roughly awake, i here proclaim was madness. was't hamlet wrong'd laertes? never hamlet: if hamlet from himself be ta'en away, and when he's not himself does wrong laertes, then hamlet does it not, hamlet denies it. who does it, then? his madness: if't be so, hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; his madness is poor hamlet's enemy. sir, in this audience, let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil free me so far in your most generous thoughts that i have shot my arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother.

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.

hello and welcome to the town of river dale. if you come to river-dale trust me you wouldn't want to leave.  

i'm a writer. so i could you with it.