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Quotation from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
“Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us. We dug the grave, and the polypi undertake to seal our dead for eternity.”
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part I, Chapter XXIII, The Coral Kingdom, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
After the burial of the crewman Aronnax could not save, Nemo explains the coral cemetery and hides his tears.
Citation: "Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us. We dug the grave, and the polypi undertake to seal our dead for eternity." — Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part I, Chapter XXIII, The Coral Kingdom, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-q3)
Portrait: Houghton FC8 V5946 869ve - Verne, frontispiece, Édouard Riou and Alphonse de Neuville, Public domain.
