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From: Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
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Subject: Re: Captain Nemo's Timeline
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:37:32 -0400
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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:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 

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.

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Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com