Re: Captain Nemo's Timeline

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:37:32 -0400, Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
wrote:
 

On 6/16/25 8:41 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 6/16/25 2:21 AM, Jerry Brown wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:22:48 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
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Disney, however, takes great works and ruins them.  That's my objection.
Whoever decided to tack a happy ending on to Hunchback of Notre Dame
deserves
to be thrown in the catacombs.

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20,00 Leagues Under the Sea is a bit of an oddity in that Nemo is much
nastier than in the book, and the ending was changed so that Nemo died
despite surviving until "The Mysterious Island" book-wise. Imagine
that nowadays, where the norm is to leave an opening for sequels.

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Book-wise the time line is a mess.  20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA takes
place from 1866 to 1868, after the American Civil War, while THE
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND starts during the American Civil War in 1865 and goes
to 1869.  During that time, Nemo does not seem to be gone from the
island for any extended period of time.
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My recollection is that in the book _20,000 Leagues_, Nemo appears to
die at the end, but he's brought back for _Mysterious Island_. It's been
a long time since I've read either, though, so I might be wrong.

 It's been so long since I read either of them -- how long has it been?
-- that all /I/ remember is the fact that I read them.
 Oh, and that my father had to point out that the "20,000 leagues" were
a horizontal measurement, not a vertical one. I was quite young at the
time.