Interesting Conversations with Icelandic Savants

           Dinnerwasready.ProfessorLiedenbrockdevouredhisportionvoraciously,forhiscompulsoryfastonboardhadconvertedhisstomachintoavastunfathomablegulf.Therewasnothingremarkableinthemealitself;butthehospitalityofourhost,moreDanishthanIcelandic,remindedmeoftheheroesofold.Itwasevidentthatweweremoreathomethanhewashimself.

           Theconversationwascarriedoninthevernaculartongue,whichmyunclemixedwithGermanandM.FridrikssenwithLatinformybenefit.Itturneduponscientificquestionsasbefitsphilosophers;butProfessorLiedenbrockwasexcessivelyreserved,andateverysentencespoketomewithhiseyes,enjoiningthemostabsolutesilenceuponourplans.

           InthefirstplaceM.Fridrikssenwantedtoknowwhatsuccessmyunclehadhadatthelibrary.

           "Yourlibrary!whythereisnothingbutafewtatteredbooksuponalmostdesertedshelves."

           "Indeed!"repliedM.Fridrikssen,"whywepossesseightthousandvolumes,manyofthemvaluableandscarce,worksintheoldScandinavianlanguage,andwehaveallthenoveltiesthatCopenhagensendsuseveryyear."

           "Wheredoyoukeepyoureightthousandvolumes?Formypart"

           "Oh,M.Liedenbrock,theyarealloverthecountry.Inthisicyregionwearefondofstudy.Thereisnotafarmernorafishermanthatcannotreadanddoesnotread.Ourprincipleis,thatbooks,insteadofgrowingmouldybehindanirongrating,shouldbewornoutundertheeyesofmanyreaders.

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