Micromégas
An inhabitant of a planet circling Sirius, eight leagues tall and banished from court for a book about insects, tours the solar system in company with a Saturnian a mere thousand fathoms high. On Earth the two eventually make out a shipload of philosophers returning across the Baltic, rig a speaking trumpet from a clipped fingernail, and find the creatures certain of everything and agreed on nothing. Voltaire's scale joke about human self-importance, learned from the Englishman he had met in London.
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- influenced by ↑ Gulliver's Travels
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