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Jules Verne
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November 4 - November 4, 2025
When our good Martha wanted to go to Market, she found the door locked. The big key was gone. Who could have taken it out? Assuredly, it was my uncle, when he returned the night before from his hurried walk.
He gave them no way to leave the house, if he decided to work without eating, then they wouldn’t be eating. Can we say narcissist.
He tried hard to put on an innocent little expression of simplicity; but it looked like a diabolical grin.
The ice king certainly held court here, and gave us all night long samples of what he could do.
“Yes,” he said, “a draught of water; but it is the very last—you hear!—the last. I had kept it as a precious treasure at the bottom of my flask. Twenty times, nay, a hundred times, have I fought against a frightful impulse to drink it off. But no, Axel, I kept it for you.”
I call BS. How much water did he hoard before giving the last drop to his dying nephew?
And, besides, we were beginning to get accustomed to this troglodyte life.
Ha ha ha 😂
I could see the awful Professor bursting through my uncle’s skin, and I took timely warning.
Obviously, any intellectual argument with a narcissist leads to violent outbursts. Lesson learned 🤦🏽♀️
“Yes,” my uncle replied, “the Liedenbrock Sea; and I don’t suppose any other discoverer will ever dispute my claim to name it after myself as its first discoverer.”
Was there ever any doubt? Can we say narcissist, again.
“Well,” he replied, “how does that make against my doctrine?” “Oh, nothing at all,” I said, seeing that I was going in opposition to immovable obstinacy.
Carefully do not confront the narcissist, quietly take a step back.
“No, no! Never!” shouted my impetuous uncle. “Never! Let the wind catch us if it will! What I want is to get the least glimpse of rock or shore, even if our raft should be smashed into shivers!”
Like the true narcissist that he is, he’s ready to die and take everyone around him with him.
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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