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Re: Who is familiar with this (apparent) JV hoax from the '50s?

From: thomas mccormick <tom_amity~at~hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:36:11 +0000
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

Hi Garmtt,

Thank you for the reference. Checking the on-line text of "Journee", I can
confirm that much of the story is the same as in my memory, and after
reading I recall more details, which again are the same. And of course I
was wrong in remembering that the story takes place in the twentieth
century. Nonetheless there are some themes in the story I remember that are
quite different. Perhaps the story I read was presented as an adaptation.

My surprise had something to do with the fact that I haven't come across
this story in discussions of Verne's other "futuristic" work (Edom, Paris in
the 20th Century, etc.) where I would have expected to see it mentioned by
way of comparison and contrast.

Tom



>From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
>Reply-To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>Subject: Re: Who is familiar with this (apparent) JV hoax from the '50s?
>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:17:46 +0200 (CEST)
>
>Hi Tom,
>
>>The story was presented as Verne's prediction of the twentieth century.
>>The protagonist travels from Paris to Universal City, capital of "the
>>United States of the Two Americas", via a subterranean transatlantic train
>>tunnel. He then communicates with his wife in Paris, using what I recall
>>(maybe wrongly) as a telephone. The state of the world is described in
>>dialogue between the minor characters; the only line I recall is "The
>>Chinese Emperor must impose birth control on his subjects."
>
>This sounds a little like "La journee d'un journaliste". Are you sure it
>wasn't a (maybe liberal) translation of that story?
>
>Cheers,
>Garmt.

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