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I read these for the first time back when I was 19 and somehow missed that Maturin was an addict until The Mauritius Command simply because I didn't know what laudunam is
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The Lord Bude posted:I feel like something very similar happened in book 4 with the captains under Jack’s command. Responding to posts from weeks ago but McAdam (the surgeon) was gay and in love with Clonfert.
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Notahippie posted:My interpretation wouldn't go so far as to say that McAdams was definitively gay and in love with Clonfert, but there's definitely a semiromantic aspect to his connection to him. Stephen mentally comments at some point about how McAdams' face lit up when Clonfert was in full manic pirate mode, and McAdams specifically says something like "have ye ever seen a man so beautiful" or something about Clonfert when Clonfert was in high spirits at some point. I think there's some kind of attraction there, but whether even McAdams himself is consciously aware of it is unclear. That line specifically was what stood out, but there were also some vague comments that I read as derisive toward relationships between men and women, like when Maturin essentially asks him to diagnose his depression. Stephen asks if he can remain capable of love and McAdam says " As between men and women, I use the term lust" and says a burning desire for "some slut" might answer.
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Aug 9, 2022 23:52
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Babbington's grandchildren will be gibbering toothless idiots
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I really liked that Diana ran off again, like that's exactly what she would do
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Oct 4, 2022 17:05
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You might even like The Letter of Marque better. Very good Stephen moments and you get to read about Aubrey coping with being a privateer/putting pride before politics. Plus we are introduced to the Sethians and Shelmerston. I won't spoil anything else. Tace is Latin for a candlestick.
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Babbington was always an infernal whoremaster.
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Jul 30, 2023 23:42
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So let's get real. Who else suspects Diana really did bang Jagiello? And Sophie that Captain Apollo guy.
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Aug 6, 2023 22:16
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Agreeing with Sophie yes, Diana no. I'm not even sure if Jagiello banged the woman who said his loins were as hot as a goat. He did say she knew nothing of his loins.
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Aug 10, 2023 04:47
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Remember when the one midshipman fell to his death skylarking after a jam session 
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Aug 19, 2023 18:25
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Post Captain is a great reread IMO. I never even realizee what Scriven was really doing until the second read.
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I've read Post Captain a couple of times and it's so sublte that if it wasn't for a reference later in the series, which is also kind of subtle, I'd still be wondering if Jack and Diana were actually banging. And was Stephen too? I think so. Very vague but that's O'Brian.
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Sep 17, 2023 00:51
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And the bear thing was so well done I didn't pick up on it until he spoke.
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Whoa I never thought that was a suicide attempt...I just thought he lost his shoes?
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Sax Solo posted:Diana deserves better than the average POB-reader's opinion, I think. I'd say it's mostly Stephen's fault for pursuing her unreasonably, but she should see they are a terrible match. She uses Stephen, but Stephen begs to be used. I like to think that he sees her too much through his naturalist eyes; she is a perfect creature he wants to witness and in some abstract sense capture and own. Ultimately, she is the hero in her own story, which we don't really get to see. There actually is kinda direct support for this in Desolation Island/Fortune of War it's more of just a matter of how aware she was of it. But, she was translating documents (before the war with the Americans) to where she would have knowledge on the French connections , and she's no dummy, so...
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Anyone ever read Testimonies? Another good example of things left unstated.
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A sponge house is a debtor's prison where they squeeze you like a sponge for every last farthing if you want food, laundry, or a nice room with a shithole beg pardon.
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Sep 23, 2023 04:32
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Desolation Island might be my favorite because after all that horrible poo poo Stephen ends up in paradise and everyone is happy at the end.
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I didn't realize Stephen was a drug addict until Mauritius Command because it didn't dawn on me what laudanum was or how he was abusing it until McAdam called him out on it.
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Sep 25, 2023 00:03
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That mumping villain!
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My dad still calls people chiselers
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Oct 28, 2023 22:22
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She's a doting grandmother, at least
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The way I always imagined it was she running her mouth and nagging and pissed Diana off so she drove recklessly, which Diana has done in the past when nagged.
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