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Micromegas by Voltaire, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Micromegas by Voltaire, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Arouet, François-Marie
Voltaire

Hardcover

FantasyClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1463899548
ISBN13: 9781463899547
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: Jun 1 2011
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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