review of trip of le horla
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The narrator receives a telegram from Captain Jovis in which Captain Jovis informs him that the air balloon journey will start at five o'clock. So he reaches at La Villette at five o'clock. The balloon is in the courtyard and its yellow cloth is lying on the ground under a rope. People who come there to watch the hot air balloon journey of the narrator and others begin to examine the hot air balloon's basket. In the basket, “Le Horla” is written on a mahogany plate.
The gas is filling in the yellow cloth through a long tube. Thus “Le Horla” begins to grow enormously. Captain Jovis and his attendants are doing the rest of the works like spreading the net to maintain the pressure. Some people criticize that the air balloon will be destroyed before it reaches the fortifications. Before getting into the hot air balloon's basket, the passengers dine as per the custom.
Captain Jovis and his attendants connect the basket to the balloon. Barometers have taken to check the weather. Before the passengers start the journey, they keep a siren, two trumpets, food, overcoats, raincoats and other things. Finally, Captain Jovis, Lieutenant Mallet, M. Etierine Beer, M. Paul Bessand and Guy de Maupassant get in the basket.
Le Horla is moving in the sky. The narrator describes its movements thus: “we float, we rise, we fly, we glide!”. The passengers see beautiful sights such as the aerial view of Paris, dommes, towers, steeples, “the plane”, “the country”, long roads that are thin and white, green fields and woods which are black. The air balloon is sometimes rising and sometimes descending. While they are moving from one place to another, they can hear noises such as “the sound of the wheels rolling in the streets”, “the snap of a whip”, the voices of drivers, “the rolling and whistling of the train” and the laughing of the boys.