A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart's novel was admired by such architects as Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, and such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (whose wedding present to Benjamin was a copy of Lesab ndio). Amid the conveyor-belt highways and lighthouses weaving together the mountains and valleys, a visionary named Lesab ndio hatches a plan to build a 44-mile-high tower and employ architecture to connect the two halves of their double star. makes him one of those humorists who, like Lichtenberg or Jean Paul, seem never to forget that the earth is a heavenly body." -Walter Benjaminįirst published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesab ndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. "The serene and gentle amazement with which Scheerbart] tells of the strange natural laws of other worlds.
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