A Bit of Aubrey and Maturin

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Seeking new mod(s) for this community

Seeking new mod(s) for this community

The moderator of this community has left Lemmy. Would anyone like to step up and take it over as the new moderator?

For background, @snakesnakewhale@sh.itjust.works announced that they were leaving in this post in another community: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1804453
They handed that community off before leaving, but did not do the same for this one.

Do you prefer audiobook, softcopy, or hardcopy?

Do you prefer audiobook, softcopy, or hardcopy?

I've circumnavigated the audiobooks with Patrick Tull quite happily, and only recently picked up the first book (and #8 FSotW) at the used book store because I want to represent my shipmates on my bookshelf. I'm a big reader generally, but hadn't read this series because I pretty much only buy my books at the used book store, and one can't control what one finds. It was a joy to visit the music room at Port Mahon again, and it occurs to me be to ask:

How do you prefer to follow our friends Aubrey and Maturin?

Music reflecting emotions

Music reflecting emotions

One of the things I appreciate about O'Brian's writing is how he uses music and Jack's and Stephen's manner of playing as a reflection of their emotions, sometimes unclear to themselves.

He had boundless confidence in Stephen, but deep in his mind there was a sense of having been - not tricked, not quite manoeuvred: perhaps managed was the word. He did not care for it at all. It wounded him. He took up his fiddle, and standing there facing the open stern window and looking out on to the wake, he stroked a deep note from the G string and so played on, an improvisation that expressed what he felt as no words could have done. But when Stephen behind him, speaking over the sound, said, 'Forgive me, Jack: sometimes I am compelled to be devious. I do not do it from choice,' the music changed, ended in an abrupt, cheerful pizzicato, and he sat down again. (Desolation Island)

This passage comes to mind, wonderfully adhering to the "show, don't tell" principle while not only reflecting Jack's conflicted emotions in this particular situation, but also his personal take on their relationship as described previously.

I am sure there are many passages like this one. Which are the most notable examples in your eyes?

Fight night! Bonden vs Davies vs Padeen - who wins?

Fight night! Bonden vs Davies vs Padeen - who wins?

Bonden the champion pugilist? Davies who once beat up a bear? Padeen who breaks limbs for fun?

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[Paris Review] Patrick O’Brian, The Art of Fiction No. 142

[Paris Review] Patrick O’Brian, The Art of Fiction No. 142

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