Re: Captain Nemo's Timeline

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:46:16 -0400, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
<evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6/16/25 11:29 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

<snippo, topic is /20,000 Leagues Under the Sea/.

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.

>
I had to point this out to someone (an adult) on a panel at Philcon 2005.

In my (our?) defence, the Nautilus /is/ a submarine and submerging is
what it does. But the horizontal interpretation is correct.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"