Reading a Classic
Been reading Jules Verne’s: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea these past few days. Then I realized that this book, published in 1870, is older than anybody in the planet right now (except maybe for the odd prehistoric tree).
I’ve always been a submarine buff. It made fourth year college all the more interesting when we started tackling powerplants during my engineering days.
Jules Verne was the father of Science Fiction, what he wrote in his books was well ahead of his time. Not to mention that he helped inspire generations to reach for the stars and journey to the depths of the sea.
Reading his biography, on the latter days of his life he experienced death, being shot at, an errant son, before finally dying of diabetes. Makes you think if that is the price for such genius?, to have to live life with such adversity. Then again, it could be he’s just a normal Joe with normal problems. But because of his fame and fortune he is forced to live life under a microscope with his every move being scrutinized and magnified to the rest of the world.
Makes you realize too that the paparazzi have been going at it for such a long time already.
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