52e91e78_thenian_Empire___December_2005__Verne_s_text
[Butchers commentary] [A]s well as the digestive imagery, the land is alive with sexuality. [Vernes text] 
The mountain, in full eruption, was vomiting a mass of burning boulders and slabs of glowing rock; it seemed to be repeatedly trembling, like a giants breathing; the ejected matter rose to a great height in the air amidst jets of intense flames, and lava flows wound down its flanks in impetuous torrents ....
Austro-Athenian Empire - December 2005
Vernes text