Clara Clayton:
Emmett, do you think we'll ever be able to travel to the moon like we travel across the country on trains?
Doc:
Definitely, although not for another eighty-four years and not on trains. We'll have space vehicles, capsules to sail off in rockets, devices that create giant explosions, explosions that are so powerful that they...
Clara Clayton:
[finishes Doc's sentence]
"They break the pull of the earth's gravity and send their projectile through outer space."
[Doc stares at her in shock. Clara laughs]
Clara Clayton:
Emmett, I read that book too. You're quoting Jules Verne, "From the Earth to the Moon".
Doc:
You've read Jules Verne?
Clara Clayton:
I *adore* Jules Verne.
Doc:
So do I. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", my absolute favorite. The first time I read that when I was a little boy I wanted to meet Captain Nemo and...
Clara Clayton:
[laughs]
Don't tease, Emmett. You couldn't have read that when you were a little boy, it was only first published ten years ago.
Doc:
Oh, yes, well... I meant it made me *feel* like a boy. I never met a woman who liked Jules Verne before.
Clara Clayton:
I never ever met a man like *you* before.
[Doc and Clara kiss as a shooting star falls from the sky]
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