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“This very evening,” returned Phileas Fogg. He took out and consulted a pocket almanac, and added, “As today is Wednesday, the second of October, I shall be due in London, in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the twenty-first of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousand pounds… will belong to you, in fact and in right, gentlemen.

Was hoping this would be more of an Alchemist-esque storybook and most of what I’m reading is arrogant British imperialism 😒