Jules Verne is the perfect palate cleanser. The last book I read was heavy like mercury on the brain. A sullen feeling of blues and depression setting me adrift on a slate gray sea.
I began several deep novels before my good senses got the better of me. I landed on Jules Verne.
The hint of a smile on my withered face. The beginning of a genuine smirk as I take in the virginal adventure. Thanks Jules Verne. I love you. Even though you’re a Frenchman. lol 🙂
A wonderful reward of synchronicity, I find the book to be about The Great Eastern, a massive steam ship engineered by Brunel, a book I’ve already enjoyed.
Jules Verne makes it come alive. We board the mighty vessel, find old acquaintances, witness a love triangle, a shipwreck, a cyclone, New York Harbor, Niagara Falls. You can’t do it better than Jules Verne.
And now my palate is cleansed. The blues have turned violet. I begin the next tome on my quest to decode this nightmare reality.
A Floating City by Jules Verne Book Review
My highlights and annotations:
Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated) by Jules Verne
Book last read: 2026-06-14 18:54:09
Chapter 357: CHAPTER I
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Highlight: ON the 18th of March, 1867, 1 arrived at Liverpool, intending to take a berth simply as an amateur traveler on board the Great Eastern, which in a few days was to sail for New York.
Notes: Brunel
Chapter 357: CHAPTER I
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Highlight: aristocratic look which so distinguishes the English officer.
Notes: Hehe
Chapter 362: CHAPTER VI
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Highlight: Old England,” said Captain Corsican, smiling; “we are there no longer, Fabian; we are on board an English ship, but it is freighted by a French company, and it is taking us to America; three different flags float over our heads, signifying that we are treading on Franco-Anglo-Americari boards.
Notes: French anglo american . Triumvirate.
Chapter 362: CHAPTER VI
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Highlight: Movement is life;’ and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Notes: Movement is life
Chapter 362: CHAPTER VI
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Highlight: the Californians certainly distinguished themselves by their proclivities for champagne. Near her husband sat an old laundress, who had found gold in the San Francisco washing-tubs, emptying a bottle of champagne in no time;
Notes: Californian drunkards
Chapter 362: CHAPTER VI
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Highlight: A few corpulent Americans
Notes: Fake food
Chapter 362: CHAPTER VI
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Highlight: Tuileries;
Notes: Burn down the TARTARIAN palace in France
Chapter 363: CHAPTER VII
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Highlight: like a Roman peasant devoutly climbing the steps of the “Scala santa” of Pontius Pilate;
Notes: Why would the gd romans be devoted to Pontious Pilot?
Chapter 363: CHAPTER VII
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Highlight: I believe even that Brunei, who built her, died from the ‘ effects of the operation,’ as we doctors say.”
Notes: Brunel
Chapter 363: CHAPTER VII
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Highlight: Because I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in most everything else, even in the evil eye.
Notes: The materialist masonic gnostic eye of horus reference. Its on the money.
Chapter 364: CHAPTER VIII
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Highlight: When the steamship came alongside the stern of the wreck, I could read distinctly the name Lerida, but the port she belonged to was not given.
Notes: The doctor prognosticates trouble. a shipwreck is found adrift.
Chapter 365: CHAPTER IX
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Highlight: They are Yankees, pure Yankees, from the small states of Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut, the produce of New England.
Notes: Damn yankees
Chapter 365: CHAPTER IX
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Highlight: Ah! my dear sir, they are true Saxons, always keenly alive to a bargain; put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.
Notes: Hehe
Chapter 365: CHAPTER IX
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Highlight: a steam horse in a watch case
Notes: Fusion
Chapter 365: CHAPTER IX
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Highlight: Look at his proud eye, his noble countenance, and dignified bearing, so different from the Yankee.
Notes: Hehe
Chapter 367: CHAPTER XI
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Highlight: Drake!” cried I, “but that man is on board.
Notes: Fabians lover was given to marriage to a Calcutta merchant.
Chapter 367: CHAPTER XI
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Highlight: cannot marry her husband’s murderer, however unworthy that husband may have been.
Notes: A woman cannot marry her husbands murderer.
Chapter 370: CHAPTER XIV
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Highlight: How beautiful is youth!”
Notes: Agreed
Chapter 374: CHAPTER XVIII
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Highlight: CORSICAN and I could no longer doubt but that it was Ellen, Fabian’s betrothed, and Harry Drake’s wife. Chance had brought all three together on the same ship.
Notes: Great shipboard plot.
Chapter 375: CHAPTER XIX
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Highlight: The first opportunity I have, I will box that impudent fellow’s ears.
Notes: Dr. FAUCI
Chapter 377: CHAPTER XXI
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Highlight: the power of the sea is infinite, and that nothing made by the hand of man can resist
Notes: Indeed
Chapter 379: CHAPTER XXIII
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Highlight: a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
Notes: Gambling vice
Chapter 384: CHAPTER XXVIII
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Highlight: one might have said it was the sword of the archangel Michael in the hands of a demon.
Notes: Sword play
Chapter 387: CHAPTER XXXI
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Highlight: Fennimore, which belongs to the American novelist, as does the land of Rob Roy to Walter Scott, glided before our eyes. For a moment Lake Ontario, which Cooper has made the scene of action of his master-work,
Notes: Ask viola – James Fenimore Cooper
Chapter 388: CHAPTER XXXII
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Highlight: This Niagarine trench separates the United States from Canada. Its right bank is American and its left English; on one side policemen, on the other not a shadow of one to be seen.
Notes: Essential worker hell house
Chapter 388: CHAPTER XXXII
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Highlight: This monument, raised in 1833, by a certain audacious being, one Judge Porter, is called the “Terrapin Tower.
Notes: Great description of Niagara. Ask circe about this tower.
Chapter 388: CHAPTER XXXII
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Highlight: Grotto of Winds,
Notes: Niagra cove behind the falls
Chapter 388: CHAPTER XXXII
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Highlight: It was a lunar rainbow, a pale irradiation of the queen of the night, whose soft light was refracted through the mist of the cataract.
Notes: Lunar rainbow
Chapter 389: CHAPTER XXXIII
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Highlight: This spot on the left bank is known by the name of “Table Rock.” It is a kind of rocky promontory jutting out into the river, which roars at a distance of four hundred feet below. Formerly it was more extensive,
Notes: Ask Circe
Chapter 390: CHAPTER XXXIV
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Highlight: Never did I feel more inclined to pitch an engineer into the water!
Notes: Mrna gmo sellout.
Chapter 390: CHAPTER XXXIV
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Highlight: Anyone may have great hopes for you, for me, for all of us, but at the same time he may be just as much wrong as right.”‘
Notes: Hopium
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