But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. Ah! sir, live--live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters!
You know, this didn't occur to me when I read the book as a teenager, but rereading this lovely tidbit just now, it occurs to me that Captain Nemo obviously has not bumped into R'yleh, or he would not so blithely assert his underwater freedom! ;-)
I also have to share a tidbit from years of teaching Latin class. When I first began teaching Latin in 1996 and we hit the vocabulary word nemo, I would mention that there was a story that took place a l-o-o-o-ng way under the sea, and the main character was named Nemo, and Disney made a movie about it ... and someone would eventually answer 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Then, after a two-year gap, I began teaching Latin again in 2004, and when I went into my song-and-dance about this vocabulary word, they all brightened up and said, Finding Nemo!!! I think they were as
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You know, this didn't occur to me when I read the book as a teenager, but rereading this lovely tidbit just now, it occurs to me that Captain Nemo obviously has not bumped into R'yleh, or he would not so blithely assert his underwater freedom! ;-)
I also have to share a tidbit from years of teaching Latin class. When I first began teaching Latin in 1996 and we hit the vocabulary word nemo, I would mention that there was a story that took place a l-o-o-o-ng way under the sea, and the main character was named Nemo, and Disney made a movie about it ... and someone would eventually answer 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Then, after a two-year gap, I began teaching Latin again in 2004, and when I went into my song-and-dance about this vocabulary word, they all brightened up and said, Finding Nemo!!! I think they were as ( ... )
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