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Today's book-type discovery: a new translation of a novel I hadn't even known Jules Verne wrote. The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), 1883. It appears to be non-genre, a romance, and to involve some of the same geography as Powell and Pressburger's "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945) This should be interesting.

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How weird. I was just thinking about Jules Verne tonight, and, well... I almost never think about Jules Verne. But I was thinking about Journey to the Center of the Earth.

What were you thinking about it?

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I was actually thinking about motifs of Above and Below, and how this gets developed in science fiction in stories (or movies) with giant skyscraper buildings, sometimes so tall that the people in them have no sense of their bottoms or tops--but I was thinking those are just a variant of the /netherworld--this world--heavenly world/ progression. Instead of three states with a boundary, it's like you get a spectrum. ... i'm going to try to write this up coherently for a blog post for Apex.

... Anyway, by train of thought I was thinking of stories with an underworld, and that got me thinking of Journey to the Center of the Earth