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Originally Posted by latepaul
No she doesn't. The scientist is in Paris travelling to London "across the sea". So the English channel not the Atlantic.
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She actually does not say in the Prologue that the scientist is or was in Paris, perhaps one could infer it from the subtitle of the Prologue but for those of us familiar with the history that subtitle would be assumed to refer to the Curies about who the Prologue makes most comment - they lived in Paris in 1901 (and for most of their working lives).
If Moore was referring to a simple crossing of the channel perhaps she should have said so, it is hardly a
journey across the sea, nor really a
travel to that foreign shore, through every second of his journey. Even in 1901 it was hardly a "journey", whereas crossing the Atlantic was.
This is just an example where she gets herself in trouble by over egging things for dramatic effect to meet her agenda.