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Left on Read: Post Captain (Patreon)

Published:
2024-04-24 12:16:24
Imported:
2024-05

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November and Riley are back at it again, swashbuckling on the high seas. While talking about this book we both loved, we found ourselves talking about comic writing in books that aren't necessarily comedies, the tangled and often at odds state institutions of regency Britain, and why on earth you'd run an anarcho capitalist navy.

Comments

Gary Alexander

The thing about the naval terminology is it changes the character of re-reads. The first time you're just as overwhelmed as Maturin. By either the second or third time you notice how often the sailors are taking the piss out of Stephen with their "explanations."

Kristaps Porzingis

In defense of the bear sequence - I think a major theme of the book is that Stephen is too busy INTJing around to be fully aware of what his emotions are doing. There are several instances where he does things which seem perfectly designed to humiliate and/or physically torture Jack and either doesn't notice or rationalizes them away, whether it's sticking him in a bearskin and marching him up a mountain, giving him the most disgusting medicine ever designed by man or showing up in a knitted onesie with a glass beehive when Jack is supposed to be making a good impression in his acting captaincy. Although Stephen's characterization is, as you point out, inconsistent, I think you can make it make some sense by reading him as furious with jealousy over Jack's visits to Mrs. Villers but unwilling to admit it to himself - and this leaks out in strange, sadistic ways in the real world while he carefully rationalizes it all in his diary.