From Jules Verne's posthumously published work, "Paris in the 20th Century"
“Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?'
'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from the Academic of Sciences, and Monsieur de Pulfasse's 'Meditations on Oxygen;' and we have the 'Poetic Parallelogram,' and even the 'Decarbonated Odes. . '
As a scientist with a deep love of the humanities, I found Verne's view that science would ruin literature and poesy quite humorous. Especially since in reality it has just neglected it.
From Jules Verne's posthumously published work, "Paris in the 20th Century"
As a scientist with a deep love of the humanities, I found Verne's view that science would ruin literature and poesy quite humorous. Especially since in reality it has just neglected it.