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Re: Wordsworth Mysterious Island edition

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 21:47:09 -0500
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Based on the snippets of translation below of this book, Wordsworth Classics, it appears to be the Kingston Translation, 1876, reformatted.
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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ralf Tauchmann
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  Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:28 AM
  Subject: Re: Wordsworth Mysterious Island edition


  "Harry Hayfield" <mailto:harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com> schrieb:
> "What still remains to be thrown out?"
> "Nothing"
> "Yes - the car"
> "Let us catch hold of the net, and into the sea with the car!"
>
> A CAR??? A CAR??? A method for travelling by the means of the internal
> combustion engine that usually has four wheels??? In a balloon??? I know
> that Verne was ahead of his time, but that's worthy of an investigation by
> the Torchwood Institute!

  Dear Harry,

  But "car" is the word actually used... for instance by Herbert George Wells in THE WAR OF THE AIR :

  "The car of the balloon was small and neat, some bags of ballast the untidiest of its contents, and he had found a light folding-table and put it at his elbow, and on that was a glass with champagne."
  -- http://wells.thefreelibrary.com/The-War-in-the-Air/3-1

  Definition in Websters Collegiate Dictionary :

  CAR of Celt origin; akin to OIr & MW carr vehicle; akin to L currere to run (14c)
      1 : a vehicle moving on wheels: as
              a archaic : carriage, chariot
              b : a vehicle designed to move on rails (as of a railroad)
              c : automobile
      2 : the passenger compartment of an elevator
      3 : the part of an airship or balloon that carries the passengers and cargo

  Times change meanings...

  Kind regards,

  Ralf
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