by neufer » Sun Jun 24, 2018 3:04 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac wrote:
<<Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist. Cyrano's short life is poorly documented. Certain significant chapters of his life are only known from the Preface to the Histoire Comique par Monsieur de Cyrano Bergerac, Contenant les Estats & Empires de la Lune (Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) published in 1657, nearly two years after his death. John Shirley published a story about Cyrano called "Cyrano and the Two Plumes" in a French anthology; it was reprinted at The Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.>>
De Guiche: Where has this man dropped from?
Cyrano: (sitting up, and speaking broadly, with a Gascon accent) From the moon!
De Guiche: My dear sir...
Cyrano: Like a bomb, I fell from the moon!
De Guiche: (impatiently) Come now! Sir!
Cyrano: (rising, in a terrible voice) From the moon!
De Guiche: (recoiling) Fine, fine! You fell from there! ...Perhaps he’s crazy!
Cyrano: (walking up to him) And yet I didn’t fall metaphorically!...
De Guiche: But ...
Cyrano: It was a hundred years, or a moment,
- I don’t know how long it lasted, that descent! -
I was inside a ball the colour of saffron!
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<<Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist. Cyrano's short life is poorly documented. Certain significant chapters of his life are only known from the Preface to the Histoire Comique par Monsieur de Cyrano Bergerac, Contenant les Estats & Empires de la Lune (Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) published in 1657, nearly two years after his death. John Shirley published a story about Cyrano called "Cyrano and the Two Plumes" in a French anthology; it was reprinted at The Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.>>[/quote]
De Guiche: Where has this man dropped from?
Cyrano: (sitting up, and speaking broadly, with a Gascon accent) From the moon!
De Guiche: My dear sir...
Cyrano: Like a bomb, I fell from the moon!
De Guiche: (impatiently) Come now! Sir!
Cyrano: (rising, in a terrible voice) From the moon!
De Guiche: (recoiling) Fine, fine! You fell from there! ...Perhaps he’s crazy!
Cyrano: (walking up to him) And yet I didn’t fall metaphorically!...
De Guiche: But ...
Cyrano: It was a hundred years, or a moment,
- I don’t know how long it lasted, that descent! -
I was inside a ball the colour of saffron!