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* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: [[The Professor]] Aronnax is fascinated by [[Wicked Cultured]] Captain Nemo and his creation, [[Cool Ship|the Nautilus]], for seven months, and he certainly wants to delay the [[Great Escape]] to see more submarine marvels… until he sees Nemo [[Kick the Dog]] and cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. |
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: [[The Professor]] Aronnax is fascinated by [[Wicked Cultured]] Captain Nemo and his creation, [[Cool Ship|the Nautilus]], for seven months, and he certainly wants to delay the [[Great Escape]] to see more submarine marvels… until he sees Nemo [[Kick the Dog]] and cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. |
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* [[Technology Marches On]]: Electricity was imbued with almost magical power in this book, and a lot of the technological wonders Verne describes seem downright quaint to modern eyes. Still, credit where credit is due, [[Shown Their Work|he did get the fundamentals of how submarines would work in the future essentially right]]. |
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Electricity was imbued with almost magical power in this book, and a lot of the technological wonders Verne describes seem downright quaint to modern eyes. Still, credit where credit is due, [[Shown Their Work|he did get the fundamentals of how submarines would work in the future essentially right]]. |
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** In a subtle and clever bit of [[Foreshadowing]], Verne had Nemo offhandedly remark when showing Arronaux his books and paintings he preferred to think those who lived on land no longer spoke or wrote, a curiously apathetic position to take when Nemo himself harnessed the latest knowledge of his day to construct the very vessel that made his way of life and immunity from the world above the waves possible. Later events in the story {{spoiler|Especially when the nations of the world realize what the Nautilus really is and seek out to destroy it to no avail |
** In a subtle and clever bit of [[Foreshadowing]], Verne had Nemo offhandedly remark when showing Arronaux his books and paintings he preferred to think those who lived on land no longer spoke or wrote, a curiously apathetic position to take when Nemo himself harnessed the latest knowledge of his day to construct the very vessel that made his way of life and immunity from the world above the waves possible. Later events in the story {{spoiler|Especially when the nations of the world realize what the Nautilus really is and seek out to destroy it to no avail}} prove Nemo was lying when he professed this. |
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* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Whoever Nemo was before he became "The Nameless Avenger", that man is so dead there is no reason to even mention him. |
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Whoever Nemo was before he became "The Nameless Avenger", that man is so dead there is no reason to even mention him. |
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{{quote|''"...I am dead, Professor; as much dead as those of your friends who are sleeping six feet under the earth!"'' }} |
{{quote|''"...I am dead, Professor; as much dead as those of your friends who are sleeping six feet under the earth!"'' }} |
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