Re: (Tears) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

On 2024-10-13, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, volume 1) by
Jules Verne

This would have been a great opportunity to review the original
French novel, given how you keep mentioning that you are Canadian,
and we all know that French is Canada's other language.

| 1: The Nautilus was not nuclear-powered, whatever Disney claimed in
| their film adaptation.

I had to look up the timeline: Construction of the USS Nautilus,
the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, began in 1952 and it
was launched in January 1954.  The Disney movie was shot over the
first half of 1954 and released starting Christmas 1954.

Also, _Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers_[1] was published in
1869-1870.  Radioactivity wasn't discovered until 1896.


[1] French title capitalization rules are baroque.
    https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Conventions_typographiques#Principes_de_capitalisation_des_titres
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