Post by Perplexed on Oct 27, 2003 5:04:09 GMT
"The New Traveller's Alamanac: Chapter Three"
Page 25. “...beneath the waters of Drake Passage...”
Drake's Passage is a real place.
"The science-pirate Captain Nemo, who kept a base at nearby Lincoln Island in the South Pacific..."
Lincoln Island appears in Jules Verne's L'Ile Mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island, 1874). L'Ile Mystérieuse was the sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and the novel in which Verne retconned Captain Nemo's origin. In the novel Lincoln Island was Nemo's volcano base.
"...first mate Ishmael..."
Ishmael, seen in League v1 #4, is the narrator of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).
"...what we have come to call the ghost submersible, an vehicle much like The Nautilus, which I had thought to be unique. Broad Arrow Jack has recently returned from Tierra del Fuego, where he'd been put ashore to learn whatever might be known of this elusive craft, and served us up an interesting account of his discoveries; The locals tell tales of an English naval sergeant, one James Winston Pepper, lost at sea in 1870, suposedly dragged down by undertows through emerald waters and eventually washed up upon the shores of a subsurface paradise where harmony reigned everywhere. The realm, named Pepper's Land after the sergeant, is reputedly the source of the garishly-coloured phantom submarine we've sighted. It may also be the home of a malignant species of blue dwarf or troll (perhaps related to the Nordic kobolds) that turns up occasionally in Argentina..."
All of these are references to the very charming Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968), written by Al Brodax, Roger McGough, Jack Mendelsohn, Lee Minoff and Erich Segal. The "ghost submersible" is the Yellow Submarine. "James Winston Pepper" is the discoverer of Pepperland. The "emerald waters" is the Sea of Green. The "malignant species of blue dwarf" is the Blue Meanies. And their location, and the presence of the Blue Meanies in Argentina, is based on an exchange between the Chief Blue Meanie and his Second, Max: "It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where shall we go?" "Argentina?" Mike Norris adds that "James Winston Pepper" is derived from Paul McCartney's first name, "James," and John Lennon's middle name, "Winston."
"...until the occasion of his death in May, 1909..."
So we know that Nemo will survive the events of League v2 and we know when he will die. We don't know, yet, the circumstances of his death, however.
"...a Miss Diver, whose connection to the Captain is unclear but who made entries in the logbook of the Nautilus commencing in the later months of 1910."
I have no idea who "Miss Diver" might be.
"...a great cluster of small islands called the Riallaro Archipelago..."
The Riallaro Archipelago appears in John Macmillan Brown's Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles (1901) and Limanora, the Island of Progress (1903).
Page 25. “...beneath the waters of Drake Passage...”
Drake's Passage is a real place.
"The science-pirate Captain Nemo, who kept a base at nearby Lincoln Island in the South Pacific..."
Lincoln Island appears in Jules Verne's L'Ile Mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island, 1874). L'Ile Mystérieuse was the sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and the novel in which Verne retconned Captain Nemo's origin. In the novel Lincoln Island was Nemo's volcano base.
"...first mate Ishmael..."
Ishmael, seen in League v1 #4, is the narrator of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).
"...what we have come to call the ghost submersible, an vehicle much like The Nautilus, which I had thought to be unique. Broad Arrow Jack has recently returned from Tierra del Fuego, where he'd been put ashore to learn whatever might be known of this elusive craft, and served us up an interesting account of his discoveries; The locals tell tales of an English naval sergeant, one James Winston Pepper, lost at sea in 1870, suposedly dragged down by undertows through emerald waters and eventually washed up upon the shores of a subsurface paradise where harmony reigned everywhere. The realm, named Pepper's Land after the sergeant, is reputedly the source of the garishly-coloured phantom submarine we've sighted. It may also be the home of a malignant species of blue dwarf or troll (perhaps related to the Nordic kobolds) that turns up occasionally in Argentina..."
All of these are references to the very charming Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968), written by Al Brodax, Roger McGough, Jack Mendelsohn, Lee Minoff and Erich Segal. The "ghost submersible" is the Yellow Submarine. "James Winston Pepper" is the discoverer of Pepperland. The "emerald waters" is the Sea of Green. The "malignant species of blue dwarf" is the Blue Meanies. And their location, and the presence of the Blue Meanies in Argentina, is based on an exchange between the Chief Blue Meanie and his Second, Max: "It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where shall we go?" "Argentina?" Mike Norris adds that "James Winston Pepper" is derived from Paul McCartney's first name, "James," and John Lennon's middle name, "Winston."
"...until the occasion of his death in May, 1909..."
So we know that Nemo will survive the events of League v2 and we know when he will die. We don't know, yet, the circumstances of his death, however.
"...a Miss Diver, whose connection to the Captain is unclear but who made entries in the logbook of the Nautilus commencing in the later months of 1910."
I have no idea who "Miss Diver" might be.
"...a great cluster of small islands called the Riallaro Archipelago..."
The Riallaro Archipelago appears in John Macmillan Brown's Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles (1901) and Limanora, the Island of Progress (1903).