haha ya I'm still disappointed we don't have Trans-Atlantic whale bus services.
haha possibly. It's remarkable how obsessed they were with using aquatic animals in the ocean.
That's really what makes this so interesting in the first place. It leaves you wondering what the sea (etc.) represented to 1900s France that would make them fixate on it: near enough to always be present and visible, but mysterious and unknown enough that their wildest aspirations were to one day explore it and figure it out. In this context, it's almost the way spiritual people of any denomination might depict themselves reaching the afterlife promised by their belief system.
It's funny how many of the concepts they got correct and are now a part of everyday life. The details and illustrations are wrong, but the concepts themselves have been realized.
Is it just me, or were they way more into underwater fun than we are? Space is not even on this. Water is all over it. We should definitely make whale bus happen. Monetize whale lives instead of whale deaths!