29. Februāris 2016

• 29.2.16 00:10
• "In the days of Henri Mouhot, the man who discovered the Angkor temples back in the sixtieth year of the previous century –the year when Pasteur launched his great battle against spontaneous generation and climbed up from Chamonix to the ‘Sea of Ice’ to take samples of clean air –back then, travelling to Asia still involved a long detour round the Cape of Good Hope. Three months under sail. Thirty years on, Yersin’s first voyage on board the Oxus was by steam through the Suez Canal and took no more than thirty days. Now, in spring ’40, it is an eight-day flight. In the span of a lifetime the pumpkin has become first a melon, then a tangerine."
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