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Re: Resolving Alleged Chronological Discrepancies In L'Ile Mysterieuse

From: thomas mccormick <tom_amity~at~hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:11:49 +0000
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

One more thing, Peter . . .

Whether my notion "doesn't change anything" depends on what we mean by
"change".

If Nemo's remark in Mysterious Island Pt III Ch. XVI -

"[Aronnax was] taken aboard my ship sixteen years ago [as of 1868]", i.e.
that Aronnax boarded the Nautilus in 1852 -

and his remark -

- "for thirty years [as of 1868] I have lived beneath the waves" - i.e.,
that Nemo's submarine life began in 1830) -

- are reasonable after all, and deliberately stated in such a way as to
contrast with what are identified in Verne's Editorial Note as "false dates"
-

-then it follows that the novel's long-alleged "internal inconsistencies"
don't exist.

The only remaining "contradiction", then, would be with the real world,
since there is no Nemo, Cyrus Smith, etc. therein. Novels, of course, are
supposed to do that!

Tom


>From: Peter Harold <haroldmania~at~yahoo.se>
>Reply-To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>Subject: Re: Resolving Alleged Chronological Discrepancies In L'Ile
>Mysterieuse
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:33:04 +0200 (CEST)
>
>First of all, thank you Thomas for sharing your
>thoughts about this. The analysis of T1 and T2 is very
>interesting, and if it doesn't change anything, it get
>a clear wiew of the differences.
>
>And now for Ralf:
>
>--- Ralf Tauchmann <ralf.tauchmann~at~t-online.de> skrev:
>
>(I don't know whether
> > JV intended to
> > write a sequel when writing 20TL, the scholars may
> > know).>
>
>Me too would like to know this. I got the impression
>that it was for commercial reasons to bring back the
>carachters from older novels. Ayrton was the only one
>Pierre-Jules Hetzel didn't agreed with.
>
>Best regards
>Peter Harold

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