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[Le Blog Personnel de Professeur Aronnax] February 12th 1868

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
To: jvf~at~gilead.org.il

We are now floating in the Mediterranean, which in case you are
wondering is accessible via an underground (or I suppose I should say
underwater) tunnel which means that my fellow countrymen building the
Suez Canal might be a little annoyed when they find that piece of
information out, but in the Mediterranean we are and if the Indian
Ocean was any guide then this should be quite the exploration.

However, Ned is not of the same opinion. Earlier today he put quite the
pointed question to me and asked "let us suppose an impossibility: if
Captain Nemo should this day offer you your liberty; would you accept
it?". Now, I have to admit that question did throw me for a moment, and
so although I replied "Your reasoning is against me. We must not rely
on Captain Nemo's good-will. Common prudence forbids him to set us at
liberty. On the other side, prudence bids us profit by the first
opportunity to leave the Nautilus", I did wonder whether he might have
a point at the same time.

As it happened, Nemo came to see him this evening and pointed out that
we were next to the Greek island of Carpathos and pointing to a map of
the globe he recited the words of Virgil "Est Carpathio Neptuni gurgite
vates, Caeruleus Proteus" or as I would put it "Welcome to Proteu's
household!"

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Posted By Harry Hayfield to Le Blog Personnel de Professeur Aronnax on
3/30/2010 11:51:00 AM

Received on Tue 30 Mar 2010 - 14:00:40 IDT

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