I Do Not Expect You to Believe

In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London.

At the Earth's Core (1914) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Context: The unnamed frame narrator opens the book by warning the reader about the tale he is about to pass on.

Not in a duel yet

Source: Prolog

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