A New World of Three
Michel Ardan: They are no more our likenesses than the Selenites are! We inhabit a new world, peopled by ourselves—the projectile! I am Barbicane’s likeness, and Barbicane is Nicholl’s. Beyond us, around us, human nature is at an end, and we are the only population of this microcosm until we become pure Selenites.
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Context: Early in the flight, Ardan reflects that the three travelers are now a world of their own.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter III: Their Place of Shelter