"All my texts were written, directly or allusively, to celebrate (Captain Hatteras's) discovery of the North Pole."
— Jules Verne

January 1, 1970

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Eugène Ionesco, quoted in William Butcher, "Preface", in Jules Verne, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), retrieved 30 March 2013