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Micromegas
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HumorClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781478364764
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 5 2012
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: French
THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MICROMEGAS AND THE INHABITANT OF SATURN
His excellency having laid himself down, and the secretary approached his nose:
It must be confessed, said Micromegas, that nature is full of variety.
Yes, replied the Saturnian, nature is like a parterre, whose flowers --
Pshaw! cried the other, a truce with your parterres.
It is, resumed the secretary, like an assembly of fair and brown women, whose dresses--
What a plague have I to do with your brunettes? said our traveler.
Then it is like a gallery of pictures, the strokes of which--
Not at all, answered Micromegas, I tell you once for all, nature is like nature, and comparisons are odious.
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