It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air. D.h. Lawrence
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Jules Verne describes the depths of the ocean using giant sea creatures. He conveys the idea that the surface is only the top of the ocean, where we can see what’s happening on land, but there is an enormous amount of water below our feet.

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