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[Le Blog Personnel de Professeur Aronnax] January 27th 1868

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:57:58 -0800 (PST)
To: jvf~at~gilead.org.il

The mood on board has changed and for the worst. I can only assume that
the loss of a sailor on a boat this size is akin to losing a relative.
So naturally, I offered to make a reading at the next service to
commerate his life and went to the library to find a Bible to make a
reading from.

It was then that I was struck by something. There wasn't a Bible on
board. This combined with all the other evidence I had picked up over
the last few months started to make sense. Captain Nemo isn't a
Christian, that had to be the only explaination. Why else would he not
celebrate Christmas, pay scant attention to the New Year and not have a
Bible on baord. When I relayed these findings to my companions, they
suddenly got very concerned. If the Captain was not a Christian, who
knew what religion he followed. From what I could remember from my
school days, there are three major non Christian religions in the
world. There's Islam which is quite a new one, only founded about 1,200
years ago, but that does have a deity associated with it and I have not
seen any deities on board so we can ignore that one, next comes Judaism
but as the Captain is not the same colour as us we can rule that one
out as well, which leaves Hindooism which unforunately is the one
religion I know little or nothing about, but I do know that it is
practised by people from British India so we might have to be very
careful from now on.

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Posted By Harry Hayfield to Le Blog Personnel de Professeur Aronnax on
2/22/2010 10:34:00 PM

Received on Tue 23 Feb 2010 - 00:58:05 IST

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