This is my favorite part of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
I love Captain Nemo so much. I used to daydream that he would appear and whisk me away in his submarine and teach me about marine life. I would fall asleep in his library every night. It would be the perfect Platonic relationship, in a more archaic use of the term (I’m a stickler for etymology- it would mean a symbiotic relationship geared toward the pursuit of knowledge).
