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A review by bupdaddy
Trips to the Moon by Lucian of Samosata, Of Samosata Lucian of Samosata
2.0
More than half the edition of this book translated by Francklin is meta - it's about the book, rather than the book itself.
This is worth reading if only because it does deliver what the title promises. Also because the protagonist makes a trip to the land of the dead, as well, where he meets "all the philosophers except Plato," because Plato, he explained, got his own special afterlife where he lived in a nation he devised and in which he was the only citizen. There were probably like 500 other equally funny bits of snark that flew right over my head.
2000 year old snark, though,. Gotta love it.
This is worth reading if only because it does deliver what the title promises. Also because the protagonist makes a trip to the land of the dead, as well, where he meets "all the philosophers except Plato," because Plato, he explained, got his own special afterlife where he lived in a nation he devised and in which he was the only citizen. There were probably like 500 other equally funny bits of snark that flew right over my head.
2000 year old snark, though,. Gotta love it.