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Re: Correction of Voyage au centre de la Terre

From: Swati Dasgupta <32swati~at~gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:28:35 +0530
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Sorry to disappoint you, but Kholby exists. Even now.
Best
Swati

 2005/8/21, Harry Hayfield <welshliberaldemocrat~at~yahoo.co.uk>:
>
> Oh, when it comes to inventing places I am forming the
> opinion that old Jules was a past master.
>
> What makes me think this? Page 52 of Mr. Butcherss
> translation of Around the World in Eighty Days when
> the train gets stopped at the hamlet of KHOLBY. A
> place that cannot be found on any map (even a Googled
> map) and a such must be entirely made up!
>
> Also there has been a slight delay to the getting back
> online front (as the person de trojianing my computer
> has been admitted to hospital with internal bleeding)
> but when I do get it back expect a review of the 2004
> and 1956 versions of Around the World in Eighty Days
> followed by a review of the only half decent version
> Ive seen, namely Around the World with Willy Fog
> (which lasts 13 hours from start to finish and only
> makes one mistake a balloon trip over the Sierra Nevada)
>
>
>
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Received on Sun 21 Aug 2005 - 16:58:40 IDT

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