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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yet…

Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.

'My word,' said Bouvard, 'look at those worlds disappearing.’

Pecuchet replied:

‘If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.’

'What is the point of it all?’

'Perhaps there isn't a point.'

'Yet…’ and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.

— Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet, 1881

Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oh my goodness: there we are, 145 years ago.

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