September 28, 2023

[hughville]

Dark Waters appears in a passage in chapter 3 of the first part of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and in chapter 3 of the second part of the novel. In the former, the first-person narrator Professor Pierre Aronnax describes, "The furnaces were stoked; the propeller churned the waves more swiftly; the frigate skirted the flat, yellow coast of Long Island; and at eight o'clock in the evening, after the lights of Fire Island had vanished into the northwest, we ran at full steam onto the dark waters of the Atlantic." In the latter, Aronnax narrates, "Under these dark waters there stretched the bank of shellfish, an inexhaustible field of pearls more than twenty miles long."