![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out the strange land Philemon finds himself on is the letter “A” that the word “Atlantic Ocean” begins with look at most any map or globe, and you’ll see the chain of islands spelling out “Atlantic Ocean” is indeed there. The island he finds himself on is so nonsensical as to make Alice’s Wonderland seem run-of-the-mill: Two green suns shine in the sky, a clock springs out of the sand like a fast-growing weed only to explode a few seconds later, bottles grow on trees and…well, you get the idea. Philemon falls into the well and gets sucked within its depths, spotting a shark before passing out, only to wash up on a beach. This story begins when Hector sends Philemon to the well to fetch some water, and as the boy complies, he finds a series of bottles with messages in them, of the sort a castaway might throw out to sea in hope of rescue. Philemon, as we learn in the opening pages here, is a young boy who lives in the country with his often grouchy, shouting, and cursing father Hector, and with his friend Anatole, a talking donkey. ![]() ![]() So who exactly is this Philemon character, aside from being the star of strips from a famous French cartoonist, better known by his pen name Fred, that young Mouly so enjoyed? ![]()
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