6/7/2023 0 Comments Etidorhpa![]() The utopia inside Earth, isn't ideal, but really unknown. Repulsion, because all that stuff is not really revealing, but un-scientific. ![]() ![]() presented not with the modern way, dramatical, but suggestive, through scientific incidents, experiments, etc. Curiosity because of the so many interesting theories, connected with alchemy, apocrypha, secret societies etc. ![]() I must confess that reading this book, I was feeling very strange, in a sense of a mixture of curiosity and repulsion. One of the first fantasy books, by a farmacist and botanologist, written in 1895, very infuencial, and very infuenced by so many (Poe, Lytton, Vern), which for a modern reader seems extraordinary. It isn't only the problem, myth and theory of the Hollow Earth that is developed in extence apart from the excelent and brilliant first chapter, where the famous quote from Seneca is referred, and the metamorphoses of the hero that follows, there are so many scientific paradoxes, strange explanations of geological phenomena, informations on chemical reactions, unorthodox physical appearences in the Earth's entrailes, and of course the teacher and quide of the protagonist, the asexual creature, who is neither alien, nor terrestial, reminder of what one would have been if he lived in Earth's internal, that make this book exceptional. ![]()
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