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Forward: A novel retelling the the complete story of a modern day Captain Nemo, Rationalized and updated for the 21st Century and the dawning of the Aid of Aquarius. (Work in Progress).
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Chapter One: The Awakening:
She had not always been this way, but she was now, and she just hoped and longed for fate to show her, her destiny or at least a new way to look at life of maybe even an alternative future.
To say that she had not always been this way, was not quite true, she had always felt odd and as if she did not really fit in even at school.
She always found the boys her own age immature and for that matter most of the girls, the concept of philosophical thought or debate seemed completely alien to them.
She even managed to upset the teachers most of the time, by needing, in fact yearning, to discuss more challenging points than the teachers generally cared to deal with. Ok she had gone to a Catholic School, but she could never understand there hesitance to at least discuss any to do with the core beliefs of there faith, you just had to believe!
After a while she just gave up, shut up and did what was required and silently developed her own philosophies.
Being the best swimmer in the school helped keep them off her back, although she was never popular or outspoken enough to be the Captain of the swim team, but if the school wanted to win they had to keep her in.
She also played the flute in the school Orchestra; she wasn’t the best at this however she was good enough to easily stay in the orchestra and this further helped to keep the school of her back. Not to say she did not enjoy playing just not the music they wanted her to play, so at night in her bedroom she composed her own.
She was small and slender and as she like to think your typical hippy chick. The Gothic crowd of tried to mould her into there image but, she was not dark or morbid like them, she loved life and wanted to experience and rejoice in every part of it, not dwell on all the bad bits, she really wanted to enhance the good bits. But never the less she even tolerated the Gothic’s and stayed as friendly as she could them, at least she thought they do try to philosophies.
At night she watched very little television, instead preferring to read, to say she was a prolific would to say the least be and understatement, she would ready anything and everything. By the time she was fifteen she was already reading, Psychology, Philosophy, and even Darwin’s Theory of evolution.
When it came to exams although she new she could do better, but she always just did enough to keep the teachers off her back, just slightly above average , but not so much as to make anyone think she was as high flyer. In exams she would even thrown in a couple of deliberately wrong answers if she thought that she was doing to well and always timed herself to just finish with one question unanswered and no time to spare, so she did not look as if it was a walk in the park for her. (Which most of the time it was.)
This way she thought I slip under the radar, if ever they found out what she was capable of, they would push her into the highest sets and streams and make her study the things they wanted her to study and she would have no time for her own private studies. She did not want to learn things to make someone else happy or for a piece of paper, that said she had or for the glory of it so everyone would say well done and dump even more study on her.
No she wanted to learn for herself, the things that interested her, not what everyone else wanted her to learn. That’s not to say she did not want to learn some of the things they wanted her to, she just always wanted to expand on what they where teaching and connect it to bigger pictures, and see the world she lived in more holistically, see the bigger picture. In her mind you could, link Philosophy, Psychology, History and Biology all at the same time, into that bigger picture.
By the time she was sixteen and had just sat her exams, the other peopled around her really bored he, she cold tell what they where thinking , what they would say next, even what they would do next.
She needed to move on, she did not, much to the annoyance of her parents want to go to University, she felt that she had served her sentence and now this was her time, she could now learn what she wanted to learn in her own way. She just Knew something better was waiting for her, out there somewhere in the future.