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36 - What is it? - Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne · Science Fiction Books - Daily

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  Speaker 2: Chapter thirty six. What is it for a long and
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  Speaker 2: weary hour? We tramped over this great bed of bones.
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  Speaker 2: We advanced regardless of everything, drawn on by ardent curiosity,
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  Speaker 2: What other marbles did this great cavern contain? What other
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  Speaker 2: wondrous treasures for the scientific man? My eyes were quite
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  Speaker 2: prepared for any number of surprises. My imagination lived in
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  Speaker 2: expectation of something new and wonderful. The borders of the
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  Speaker 2: great Central Ocean had for some time disappeared behind the
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  Speaker 2: hills that were scattered over the ground occupied by the
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  Speaker 2: plain of bones. The imprudent and enthusiastic professor, who did
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  Speaker 2: not care whether he lost himself or not, hurried me forward.
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  Speaker 2: We advanced silently, bathed in waves of electric fluid. By
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  Speaker 2: reason of a phenomenon which I cannot explain, and thanks
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  Speaker 2: to its extreme diffusion, now complete, the light illumined equally
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  Speaker 2: the sides of every hill and rock. Its seat appeared
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  Speaker 2: to be nowhere in no determined force, and produced no shade. Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: The appearance presented was that of a tropical country at
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  Speaker 2: midday in summer, in the midst of the equatorial regions,
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  Speaker 2: and under the vertical rays of the sun, all signs
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  Speaker 2: of vapor had disappeared. The rocks, the distant mountains, some
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  Speaker 2: confused masses of far off forests assumed a weird and
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  Speaker 2: mysterious aspect. Under this equal distribution of the luminous fluid,
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  Speaker 2: we resembled, to a certain extent the mysterious personage in
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  Speaker 2: one of Hoffmann's fantastic tales, the Man who Lost his Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: After we had walked about a mile farther, we came
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  Speaker 2: to the edge of a vast forest, not, however, one
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  Speaker 2: of the vast mushroom forests we had discovered near Port Gretchen.
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  Speaker 2: It was the glorious and wild vegetation of the Tertia period,
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  Speaker 2: in all its superb magnificence. Huge palms of a species
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  Speaker 2: now unknown superb permicites, a genus of fossil palms from
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  Speaker 2: the coal formation, pines Us suppress and conifers or cone
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  Speaker 2: bearing trees, the whole bound together by an inextricable and
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  Speaker 2: complicated mass of creeping plants. A beautiful carpet of mosses
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  Speaker 2: and ferns grew beneath the trees. Pleasant brooks murmured beneath
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  Speaker 2: umbrugious boughs. Little worthy of this name, for no shade
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  Speaker 2: did they give. Upon their borders grew small tree like shrubs,
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  Speaker 2: such as are seen in the hot countries. On our
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  Speaker 2: own inhabited globe. The one thing wanting in these plants,
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  Speaker 2: these shrubs, these trees, was color. For ever depreed of
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  Speaker 2: the vivifying warmth of the sun, they were vapid and colorless.
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  Speaker 2: All shade was lost in one uniform tin of a
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  Speaker 2: brown and faded character. The leaves were folly devoid of verdure,
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  Speaker 2: and the flowers so numerous during the tertary period which
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  Speaker 2: gave them birth, were without color and without perfume, something
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  Speaker 2: like paper discolored by long exposure to the atmosphere. My
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  Speaker 2: uncle ventured beneath the gigantic grooves. I followed him, though
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  Speaker 2: not without a certain amount of apprehension. Since nature had
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  Speaker 2: shown herself capable of producing such stupendous vegetable supplies, why
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  Speaker 2: might we not meet with mammals just as large and
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  Speaker 2: therefore dangerous? I particularly remarked in the ears left by
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  Speaker 2: trees that had fallen and been partially consumed by time.
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  Speaker 2: Many leguminous beam like shrubs, such as the maple and
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  Speaker 2: other eatable trees, dear to ruminating animals. Then the repair
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  Speaker 2: confounded together and intermixed the trees of such varied lands
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  Speaker 2: specimens of the vegetation of every part of the globe.
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  Speaker 2: There was the oak near the palm tree, the Australian eucalyptus,
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  Speaker 2: and interesting class of the order Mirtasseir, leaning against the
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  Speaker 2: tall Norwegian pine, the poplar of the north, mixing its
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  Speaker 2: branches with those of the New Zealand cowris. It was
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  Speaker 2: enough to drive the most ingenious classifier of the upper
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  Speaker 2: regions out of his mind and to upcept all his
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  Speaker 2: received ideas about botany. Suddenly I stopped short and restrained
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  Speaker 2: my uncle. The extreme diffuseness of the light enabled me
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  Speaker 2: to see the smallest objects in the distant corpses. I
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  Speaker 2: thought I saw, No, I really did see with my
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  Speaker 2: own eyes immense gigantic animals moving about under the mighty trees. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they were truly gigantic animals, a whole herd of mastodons,
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  Speaker 2: not fossils, but living and exactly like those discovered in
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  Speaker 2: eighteen o one on the marshy banks of the Great
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  Speaker 2: Ohio in North America. Yes, I could see these enormous elephants,
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  Speaker 2: whose trunks were tearing down large bows and working in
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  Speaker 2: and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I
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  Speaker 2: could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees.
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  Speaker 2: The bows crackled, and the whole masses of leaves and
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  Speaker 2: green branches went down the capacious throats of these terrible monsters.
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  Speaker 2: That wondrous dream, when I saw the antihistorical times revivified,
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  Speaker 2: when the Terrisary and quaternary periods passed before me, was
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  Speaker 2: now realized. And there we were, alone, far down in
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  Speaker 2: the bowels of the earth, at the mercy of its
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  Speaker 2: ferocious inhabitants. My uncle paused, full of wonder and astonishment. Come,
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  Speaker 2: he said, at last, when his first surprise was over,
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  Speaker 2: Come along, my boy, and let us see them nearer. No,
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  Speaker 2: replied I, restraining his efforts to drag me forward. We
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  Speaker 2: are fully without arms. What should we do in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of that flock of gigantic quadrupeds? Come away, uncle,
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  Speaker 2: I implore you. No human creature can, with impunity brave
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  Speaker 2: the ferocious anger of these monsters. No human creature, said
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  Speaker 2: my uncle, suddenly, lowering his voice to a mysterious whisper.
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  Speaker 2: You are mistaken, my dear henry. Look look yonder. It
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  Speaker 2: seems to me that I behold a human being, a
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  Speaker 2: being like ourselves, a man, I looked, shrugging my shoulders,
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  Speaker 2: decided to push incredulity to its very last limits. But
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  Speaker 2: whatever might have been my wish, I was compelled to
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  Speaker 2: yield to the weight of ocular demonstration. Yes, not more
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  Speaker 2: than a quarter of a mile off, leaning against the
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  Speaker 2: trunk of an enormous tree, was a human being, a
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  Speaker 2: protifs of these subject terranean regions, a new son of Neptun,
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  Speaker 2: keeping this innumerable herd of mastodons, Immanis Pcoris coustus imanior ipsen,
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  Speaker 2: the keeper of gigantic cattle, himself still more gigantic. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it was no longer a fossil whose corpse we had
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  Speaker 2: raised from the ground in the Great Cemetery, but a
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  Speaker 2: giant capable of guiding and driving these prodigious monsters. His
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  Speaker 2: height was about twelve feet, his head as big as
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  Speaker 2: the head of a buffalo, was lost in a mane
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  Speaker 2: of matted hair. It was, indeed a jewge man, like
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  Speaker 2: those which belonged to the elephants of the earlier ages
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  Speaker 2: of the world. In his hand was a branch of
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  Speaker 2: a tree, which served as a crook. For this antediluvian shepherd.
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  Speaker 2: We remained profoundly still speechless with surp but we might
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  Speaker 2: at any moment be seen by him. Nothing remained for
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  Speaker 2: us but instant flight. Come, Come, I cried, dragging my
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  Speaker 2: uncle along, and for the first time he made no
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  Speaker 2: resistance to my wishes. A quarter of an hour later
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  Speaker 2: we were far away from that terrible monster. Now that
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  Speaker 2: I think of the matter calmly, and that I'd reflect
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  Speaker 2: upon it dispassionately. Now that months years have passed since
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  Speaker 2: this strange and unnatural adventure befell us, What am I
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  Speaker 2: to think? What am I to believe? No, it is
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  Speaker 2: utterly impossible. Our ears must have deceived us, and our
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  Speaker 2: eyes have cheated us. We have not seen what we
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  Speaker 2: believed we had seen. No human being could, by any possibility,
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  Speaker 2: have existed in that subterranean world. No generation of men
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  Speaker 2: could inhabit the lower caverns of the globe without taking
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  Speaker 2: note of those who peopled the surface, without communication with them.
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  Speaker 2: It was fully, fully folly, nothing else. I am rather
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  Speaker 2: inclined to admit the existence of some animal resembling in
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  Speaker 2: structure the human race, of some monkey of the first
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  Speaker 2: geological epochs, like that discovered by Monsieur l'arte in the
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  Speaker 2: ossiferious deposit of sansan. But this animal, or being, which
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  Speaker 2: soever it was, surpassed in height all things known to
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  Speaker 2: modern science. Never Mind, however unlikely it may be. It
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  Speaker 2: might have been a monkey, but a man, a living man,
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  Speaker 2: and with him a whole generation of gigantic animals buried
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  Speaker 2: in the entrails of the earth. It was too monstrous
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  Speaker 2: to be believed. End of chapter thirty six.
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