Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Professor Liedenbrock, a man of incredible impatience and Axel, his unadventurous nephew, come across a coded note in an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga. as they try to decipher the code and reveal the message, the results are not quite meaningful.“I will get at the secret of this document andI will neither sleep nor eat until I have found it out.”My comment on this was a half-suppressed “Oh!”“Nor you either, Axel,” he added.As Axel discovers the secret, he decides to keep it to himself. But defeated by his hunger after two days, he reveals it to Liedenbrock.