Petite Discussion avec.. Momie

Features Petite Discussion avec.. Momie

[Ebook Reader of Little Chat with a Mummy]Some Words with a Mummy is a fantastic short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in April 1845.
Translated into French by Charles Baudelaire, it is part of the collection New Extraordinary Stories.SummaryThe narrator is invited by his friend Doctor Ponnonner to the nocturnal and improvised examination of a mummy recently discovered by a certain Captain Sabretash in the mountains of Libya, above Thebes.
The pseudo-scientists (in fact, simple friends of the doctor) find, on the first crate, the name of the mummy, Allamistakeo ("nothing but an error-o"); Arriving at Third and Body, one of them suggests an experiment with a voltaic pile.
Under shock, the four or five thousand year old mummy suddenly wakes up, and, in "purest Egyptian style", immediately reproaches them sharply for their harshness towards him.The amateur Egyptologists excuse themselves and seat their host with a cigar and a drink.
In the conversation that follows, the latter explains that his time was very advanced, significantly more than theirs, and that mummification offered a break from a life that was too long (themes taken up in Adèle Blanc-Sec).
Moderns ridicule themselves for their shortcomings in trying to counter him (for example, the narrator quotes the Greek Ptolemy in the belief that he can be authoritative for an Egyptian two thousand years older).
In the end, their only recourse will be to make Allamistakeo admit that his time did not know the "wonderful" miracle cures of Dr.
Ponnonner.The whole story could well be the narrators drunken dream, because he begins it drunk, and ends it when he wakes up...(Audiobook)