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20,000 leagues under the sea...

Jules Vern's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" captured my imagination when I was but a wee lad of ten or twelve, and I immersed myself in it much like the Nautilus did in the wide Pacific. I remember hiding under the covers, reading this book in the rapidly dimming light of a flashlight. The adventure of daring to defy the rules and read way past my bedtime was almost as exciting as the story I was reading - and focusing on the limited part of the page that was lit at any one moment added to the sense of mystery. It was cool...

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Uploaded on January 15, 2009
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