Mobilis in Mobili
Things of Interest:
Captain Nemo, Freedom Fighter
Films:
The Russian 1975 "Captain Nemo" Miniseries
SNL: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
AMC's "Nautilus"
Games:
Leagues of Love: a Steampunk Dating Sim
Nemo's Fury
Verne: the Shape of Fantasy
A Whale of a Tale:
Hello my fellow bookworms, geeks and uncivilized vagrants! My name is Anna, and I hail from the United States.
I married a man from India. He’s the full package. Tall, dark and handsome…sort of broody until he warms up to you, then he’s a total cinnamon roll. He’s also adventurous, has compelling leadership qualities and a penchant for humanitarianism, which is one of the main reasons I husband’ed him. We’ve been bound in holy matrimony for many a year, and he’s aged like fine wine.
Here's us as young 'uns living in India:
Behind us in this photo you'll see an Indian naval submarine. He took me on a tour of it as a date, because he knows how to show a girl a good time.
Early on in our relationship I read "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." I couldn’t put it down! At night I would dream about being on board the Nautilus. Furthermore…I was immediately smitten with Captain Nemo.
I actually got a little flustered reading TKLUTS. Captain Nemo is first introduced with three paragraphs describing how handsome he is, with a commanding presence, swarthy features and “finely-tapered hands.” In Professor Aronnax’s words, “Certainly the most wonderful physical specimen I'd ever met up with.”
As the story progresses, he’s shown to be level-headed under pressure, a great leader, and, of course a brilliant mind. My little ol’ heart could hardly handle it when he saved that pearl-diver’s life…or when he smuggled gold to the revolutionaries in Crete. And it did certainly did not help when he would have an impassioned outburst, or break down in tears at the sight of a human life being taken.
(Jules Verne made Captain Nemo SO HOT…and for what?!)
Now obsessed with this literary figure, I had to find out his elusive backstory. A brief Google search revealed another Jules Verne book, “The Mysterious Island,” which promised to answer my questions.
Upon reading “The Mysterious Island,” I was hard-hit by the tragic tale of the deposed Indian Prince Dakkar, alias Captain Nemo who lost his family during the rebellion of 1857, then built a futuristic submarine in secret with his faithful followers, and dedicated his life to science…and revenge.
Then it hit me like a thunderbolt.
Captain Nemo is Indian...
The way people look up to him…
The intelligent, constantly active mind…
The thirst for adventure…
The tender heart hidden under an exterior of emotional constipation..
It was then I realized that I was besotted with a fictional character…who is a dead ringer for my own dear husband!
Upon re-reading TKLUTS I could attest that the way Captain Nemo reacts in any given situation is just how my husband would react if he had a penchant for engineering and undiagnosed chronic depression. I was flabbergasted that I hadn’t seen it before!
Practically slamming a copy of “20k League Under the Sea” in front of my spouse, I said, “This could be us: we just need a submarine!”
They always said, "boys are better in books..."
This is why I advise people to not hold out.
Wait until you find the literary character of your dreams in the flesh.
It’s truly a joy to hold his finely-tapered hands.
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