Old aspects, of renewable energies, from cucumbers - Page 2

Catfish · 11-12-14, 11:51 AM

At the grand academy of Lagado

" ... I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many

days to the academy. Every room hath in it one or more

projectors; and, I believe, I could not be in fewer than five

hundred rooms.

The first man I saw, was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands

and face; his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in

several places. His cloaths, shirt, and skin, were all of the

same colour:

he had been eight years upon a project for

extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers; which were to be put

into vials, hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air,

in raw inclement summers.

He told me, he did not doubt, in

eight years more, that he should be able to supply the

governor´s gardens with sun-shine at a reasonable rate; but,

he complained that his stock was low, and intreated me to give

him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially

since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers: I made

him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money

on purpose; because he knew their practice of begging from all

who go to see them. ..."

11-12-14, 11:51 AM	#1
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Old aspects, of renewable energies, from cucumbers At the grand academy of Lagado " ... I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy. Every room hath in it one or more projectors; and, I believe, I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw, was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face; his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in several places. His cloaths, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour: he had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers; which were to be put into vials, hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air, in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, in eight years more, that he should be able to supply the governor´s gardens with sun-shine at a reasonable rate; but, he complained that his stock was low, and intreated me to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers: I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money on purpose; because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them. ..."