Reading A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder | Alexandria
Read A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille. Discovering a lost world where death is celebrated and wealth despised upends everything in De Mille's eerily prophetic 1888 novel. This satire of Victorian values follows explorers who find an Antarctic civilization that inverts "normal" society - the rich live in darkness, the poor bask in light, and what we fear becomes their greatest joy. A fascinating meditation on how cultural values shape reality.