Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:44:11 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
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Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Google home page today
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
>> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 2/8/2011 6:44 PM >>>
>> Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> http://www.google.com/
>> Yep. Happy 183rd birthday, Monsieur Verne.
>
> Read some Verne - but only recent translations.  Oddly enough Verne did =
> not write in English. <g>

"Why can't these furriners speak English?" - WWII cartoon of Willie &
Joe, by Bill Mauldon.

Recently borrowed a book by Anderson from BSFS, called Nemo, with the
premise that Nemo actually existed, and was a boyhood friend of Verne's.
Interesting changes to Verne's stories...

> Anyway, the odds are whatever Verne you've read, is not what he wrote: =
> http://jv.gilead.org.il/evans/VerneTrans%28article%29.html

Why am I not surprised?

mark
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