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Micromegas: Philosophical History

Micromegas: Philosophical History

Voltaire

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ISBN10: 149443489X
ISBN13: 9781494434892
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 10 2013
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
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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