The world would be such a richer, better place if that was true. Like, halfway through To the Lighthouse, they are shipwrecked ... on a mysterious island! At the end of Mice and Men, Lenny moves to the island! In the middle of the Central Valley.
(I definitely did not know the secret -- I was in fourth grade, I did not yet know anything about Nemo but his name -- and so while I totally loved Nemo (HEARTS. HEARTS FOR THE PHANTOM OF OCEANOGRAPHY) I spent the whole book breathlessly waiting to find out his backstory. And they -- basically either don't explain it or don't explain it well? One of the two. So I finished and was like "WHAT. BUT WHERE DID NEMO COME FROM. WHY IS HE SO SAD." I didn't realize until I asked my father that the answer was supposed to be "Because he's Captain Nemo, dumbass.")
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(I definitely did not know the secret -- I was in fourth grade, I did not yet know anything about Nemo but his name -- and so while I totally loved Nemo (HEARTS. HEARTS FOR THE PHANTOM OF OCEANOGRAPHY) I spent the whole book breathlessly waiting to find out his backstory. And they -- basically either don't explain it or don't explain it well? One of the two. So I finished and was like "WHAT. BUT WHERE DID NEMO COME FROM. WHY IS HE SO SAD." I didn't realize until I asked my father that the answer was supposed to be "Because he's Captain Nemo, dumbass.")