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The Blog of Axel Lidenbrock : August 23rd 1863

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:32:19 +0100
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BlankSystem Rebooting

Internal Hard Drive Damage Report: None detected

Accessing last entry...Retrieved

Temporal Alignment...Aligned

Activating Warning siren adjusted to time Zone : Cuckoo selected

Yes mother, I will switch off the cuckoo clock. Ooohh, where am I? The
storm...Uncle, Hans are you all right? That's good, I must say though, the
storm may have lessened but lessened from a hurricane to a mere storm. The
lightning flashes with intense brilliancy, and never seems to cease for a
moment. Zigzag streams of bluish white fire dash down upon the sea and
rebound, and then take an upward flight till they strike the granite vault
that overarches our heads. Suppose that solid roof should crumble down upon
our heads! Other flashes with incessant play cross their vivid fires, while
others again roll
themselves into balls of living fire which explode like bombshells, but the
music of which scarcely-adds to the din of the battle strife that almost
deprives us of our senses of hearing and sight; the limit of intense
loudness has been passed within which the human ear can distinguish one
sound from another. If all the powder magazines in the world were to explode
at once, we should hear no more than we do now. But compared to what it was,
this is just a dull roar.

My uncle of course is more interested in the temperature of the water (as
you might expect). Here, let me have a read of it. That's got to be a
mistake, surely. The water can't be that hot?

Received on Sun 24 Aug 2008 - 00:32:28 IDT

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