Bell Hammer Song

Also, I suppose , I felt I was beginning to understand the man himself. He went to an attache-case, and took out a bundle of typed manuscript. Well, here it is, anyhow, and you can make what you like of it.

By which I suppose you mean that I'm not  expected to believe it?

 Oh, hardly so definite a warning as that. But mind, if you do believe, it will be for Tertullian's famous reason-you remember? quia impossibile est (it is impossible). Not a bad argument, maybe. Let me know what you think, at all events.

I took the manuscript away with me and read most of it. I got a short note from (him) to say he was off on his wanderings again. He was going to Kashmir, he wrote, and thence "east." I was not surprised.

 James Hilton, "Lost Horizon, Copyright 1933