“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, who on this date in Jules Verne‘s 1868 piloted the Nautilus into the Mediterranean Sea through the Arabian Tunnel.
Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist starts a journey in an incomprehensible vehicle.
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