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Phileas Fogg's Blog : Well it's makes a difference from what some people think!

From: Harry Hayfield <welshliberaldemocrat~at~yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:31:41 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

BlankWhilst trawling around for the latest DVD release of the Willy Fog
series based on Journey to the Centre of the Earth, I came across a book
called "The Other Log of Phileas Fogg" written by Philip José Farmer. Not
that I would recommend it to members though:

"This book is somewhat after the style of Farmer's Doc Savage and Tarzan
novels. As the title implies, it concerns itself with the protagonist of
Verne's Around The World In 80 Days, with the premise that the story did,
for the most part, take place as Verne described. It even goes so far as to
come up with explanations for things that were most likely just sloppiness
on Verne's part.

The simple explanation for most of these anomalies is just that Fogg is on
one side of a long way between the Eridaneans and the Capellans on Earth.
There are, actually, very few of the original alien races left, but the
humans they've raised consider themselves equivalent. Each side paints the
other as horrors, and claims that once they rid the world of the others,
they can bring Earth to a golden age. (One is not necessarily convinced of
their sincerity, though.)

Fogg himself, his 'man' James Forster, Forster's replacement Passepartout,
Andrew Stuart(Fogg's whist partner and the one who proposes the eighty-day
jaunt), and Aouda(the woman they rescue in India)are all Eridaneans. Fix,
the detective who attempts to arrest Fogg for the robbery he allegedly
committed before his departure, is a Capellean. His master behind the
scenes(whom Verne does not mention in 80 Days, but in another of his
novels)is the Capellean Captain Nemo"

In other words, completely off his rocker! But it did get me thinking
supposing someone gave Fogg a laptop computer the day before he went on his
little "jaunt" and asked him to keep a record of anything that he did of
note between October 1st 1872 and New Year's Day 1873. Now who do we know
who might be in a position to do that eh? Well, it might well be someone who
looks like this:



and might just have access to one of these little gadgets



What I'll be doing is posting his blog daily starting tonight (with the
arrival of an unexpected present) and continuing right through until the end
of the year. As to the reason why, well I believe someone did say that
posting was a little slow of late.

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