How Vingt mille lieues sous les mers Changed Me
Was this really my first assigned reading? Weird. All I remember is a submarine and a possibly unhinged captain named after that Pixar fish. At least I learned the difference between emergir and imergir—which, honestly, is more than I can say for most school books.
eli5.txt
> scientist gets kidnapped by a dude with a boat fetish
> said boat is actually a badass submarine
> captain doesn’t believe in personal space
> sea monsters, shipwrecks, and existential dread ensue
> no one leaves, except when they do