SMAMS BLOG

“Yes I love it ! The sea is everything, It covers seventh-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an Immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite,’ as one of your poets has said. In fact, Professor, nature manifests herself in it by her three kingdoms, mineral, vegetable, and animal. The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speck; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquillity. The sea does not belong to deposits. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below is level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. Ah! sir, live—live in the bosom if the waters! There only is independence ! There I recognize no masters ! There I am free !” Captain Nemo (20,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne)

“I am not what you call a civilized man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not therefore Obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again.” Captain Nemo (20,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne)