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" Yet industry's
wonders and its commonplaces inspired Walt Whitman to sing snow shoes,
rainproof coats, and the Brooklyn Bridge, "the latest dates, discoveries,
inventions, societies, authors old and new... " Before too long, Carl
Sandburg praised (ah, woe!) Chicago: "grocer of the world, maker of tools,
champion of railroads, carrier of the nation's freight. " What can one
expect of Americans when even Parisiennes, Verne ruefully admits, are becoming
Americanized? Yet everything can fuel the inspiration of an artist. The
writings of Jules Verne are proof of this. Michel seems to ignore it.
Perhaps
Verne's fascination with science was only secondhand. We know that at Amiens,
where the university today bears his name, one of his own prize- giving
speeches was devoted to a ringing denunciation of the bicycle; and that when,
in 1894, Hetzel telephoned him at his club (his Amiens
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