Around The World In 80 Days
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- You are too slow
- Pardon me, monsieur, it is impossible—
- Phileas Fogg is an eccentric man living in an upscale London neighborhood on wealthy Savile Row. Meticulously precise in every detail, Fogg mathematically aligns every aspect of his life down to the second.
- Give me your money!!!!!
- AHHHH
- Phileas Fogg spends every day exactly the same way, leaving for his only social outlet, the Reform Club, at the same time every morning and returning to his home exactly at midnight every evening. At the club, he reads a variety of newspapers, eats lunch and dinner, and plays the card game whist.
- Only eighty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, t Indian Peninsular Railway, has been opened. Here it is
- It was once
- Oh, I don’t know that. The world is big enough
- Phileas Fogg waits for his new servant, Jean , to arrive. Passepartout, a Frenchman, has spent his life jumping from one trade to another, and he is anticipating a peaceful, regulated life in Phileas Fogg's service. During their first conversation, Fogg notices Passepartout's watch is slow and demands he reset it to match the time on his. Then, Fogg breezes out the door and heads to the Reform Club.PassepartoutBetween 11:00 and 11:15 a.m. P
- I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring’s which I will willingly risk upon it
- Phileas Fogg and his five Reform Club associates discuss a robbery at the Bank of England by a thief, who has escaped with £55,000. Andrew Stuart, one of the whist players, argues the robber will likely get away with the crime because the world is a big place and detectives won't be able to find him. Another player, Gauthier Ralph, expects detectives, motivated by the generous reward, will apprehend the robber quickly.
- Phileas Fogg says to Stuart that the world used to be a big place, but this isn't true anymore. . Fogg explains people can now circumnavigate the world in just 80 days because of the completion of a new railway spanning India. Another whist player, John Sullivan, shows them a timetable published in the newspaper, which shows exactly how the trip can be accomplished traveling from London to India to Hong Kong and then on to Japan, San Francisco, New York, and back to London.
- His friends argue he must consider unforeseen circumstances. Fogg states his 80-day itinerary does. Stuart then makes a £4,000 wager that Fogg can't accomplish such a feat, and Fogg counters with £20,000. The five whist players, Andrew , John, Samuel, Thomas, and Gauthier , agree to Fogg's £20,000 wager. Fogg asserts he will circumnavigate the world beginning at 8:45 that evening and ending on December 21 at 8:45 p.m. in the Reform Club.
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