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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Artistic Confrontation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: trauma, creation, myth, perception, transformation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-11

I overcame the horror that inspired me, and, taking a pencil, began to draw it. “Perhaps this is the same which the Alector saw,” said Conseil.
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Geological Mysteries

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, natural power, history, mythology, barriers  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-04

"This huge lump of rock, in consequence of some singular concussion, or process, one of those magnetic phenomena which have so often shaken the terres...
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Dracula / Vampire Limitations

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: myth vs reality, cultural fears, identity, mortality, superstition  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-27

In fine, let us consider the limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular. “All we have to go upon are traditions and supersti...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Grandeur

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: geology, mythology, power of nature, human ambition, sublime  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-21

Is it not quite evident that this gallery was formerly the outlet for the pent-up lava in the interior of the earth, and that these eruptive matters t...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Myth and Exploration

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mythology, exploration, confinement, nature, technology  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16

It was indeed the ancient abode of Proteus, the old shepherd of Neptune’s flocks, now the Island of Scarpanto, situated between Rhodes and Crete. I sa...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Vigilance at Sea

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: observation, duty, vigilance, mythology, isolation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-02

I leave you to judge how eyes were used on board the _Abraham Lincoln_. For my own part I was not behind the others, and left to no one my share of da...