EPILOGUE TO ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE THE READER BELIEVE THAT IF THIS BOOK IS SUCH AS IT IS, IT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE AUTHOR One does not write the books one wants to. _Journal des Goncourt._ _The history of Leda made such a great stir and covered Tyndarus with so much glory that Minos was not much disturbed to hear Pasiphaë say to him: “It can’t be helped. I do not like men.”_ _But later: “It is very provoking (and it has not been easy!) I trusted that a God had hidden there. If Zeus had done his share I should have produced a Dioscurus; thanks to this animal, I have only given birth to a calf.”_ PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS WEST NORWOOD LONDON TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Prometheus Illbound, by André Gide