#20kluts

Captain Nemo

Source: Disney and more: Rare 1955 Disneyland 20000 Leagues Under the Sea Exhibit View-Master Color Pictures

The locks were turned, the door opened, and the steward appeared.

Before I could rush forward to stop him, the Canadian had thrown him down, and held him by the throat. The steward was choking under the grip of his powerful hand.

Conseil was already trying to unclasp the harpooner’s hand from his half-suffocated victim, and I was going to fly to the rescue, when suddenly I was nailed to the spot by hearing these words in French—

“Be quiet, Master Land; and you, Professor, will you be so good as to listen to me?”

like take conseil: in the english version you just think ok that’s his name but like. it’s a french word. okay cool a lot of names are words. however the book itself was originally french. they are canonically speaking french throughout the whole thing. like imagine aronnax musing to himself like “hm. i must get advice for this matter” and conseil showing up in the room out of nowhere like “master called?” and then half the time his advice is just “I dont know I don’t really have a stake in this. check out this interesting fish.” it’s like having a character named hope and having the other characters talk about needing to have hope (concept)while hope (character) is standing right next to them.

and then we have ned land. the man who wants to get the fuck out of the ocean and back on solid ground. and his last name is land.