Micromegas by Voltaire, Fiction, Classics, Literary by Voltaire

Micromegas by Voltaire, Fiction, Classics, Literary by Voltaire

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.