Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life. When I was not more than ten or eleven years old I read his Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and my young imagination was fired. This generation may have forgotten that Verne was a great scientist as well as the writer of the most romantic fiction of his day.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life. When I was not more than ten or eleven years old I read his Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and my young imagination was fired. This generation may have forgotten that Verne was a great scientist as well as the writer of the most romantic fiction of his day." in the context of "Simon Lake, Submarine: The Autobiography of Simon Lake (New York: Appleton-Century, 1930), p. 10." to mean that wisdom is timeless.