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241 Re: Laughter (AND THE COMMODORE) -- rank: 669

Sean Dimond wrote: > > speaking of laughter, I came across a particularly delightful section in > The Commodore... one that had entirely escaped my memory from past > readings, but was hilarious to read again... also somewhat suprising, > since I don't remember jack every gleefully lording his positiion over > his shipmates like this. A similar passage is the one where Jack points out that a benefit of exalted rank and position is commanding a ship large enough to have ...

Poster's Name:	Anthony Gary Brown
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Message Date:	2002-07-18 17:41:24 UTC

242 Re: Laughter (AND THE COMMODORE) -- rank: 669

>I like Peter Abelard's definition: >Homo risibilis, navigabilis - man who can laugh and sail a boat. Seems very apt for the members of the gunroom >John R. Gosden >7*51'59"N / 98*20'28"E speaking of laughter, I came across a particularly delightful section in The Commodore... one that had entirely escaped my memory from past readings, but was hilarious to read again... also somewhat suprising, since I don't remember jack every gleefully lording his positiion over ...

Poster's Name:	Sean Dimond
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Message Date:	2002-07-18 17:18:05 UTC

243 Re: The Commodore (SPOILER) -- rank: 669

In a message dated 4/18/02 8:15:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, NVarnum@ARKAYINDUSTRIES.COM writes: << I remember when this book came out, I asked a friend who had already  read it what his thoughts were. He opined that POB had wrapped up  everything nicely and it could easily serve as the last of the series.  I still remember the chill I felt when he said that... >> At the time, I felt much the same thing and wondered if perhaps POB, feeling a whisper of the winds of mortalit ...

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Message Date:	2002-04-19 00:39:52 UTC

244 Re: The Commodore (SPOILER) -- rank: 669

-----Original Message----- From: Nick Coleman [mailto:njpc@OZEMAIL.COM.AU] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:27 PM To: GUNROOM@HMSSURPRISE.ORG Subject: [POB] The Commodore (SPOILER) (snips throughout) <<I finished "The Commodore" this morning and it struck me that the close is very different to that of the previous half-dozen books. This book closes with all the loose ends in the canon resolved: It seems to me that POB may have originally intended that "The Commod ...

Poster's Name:	Nathan Varnum
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Message Date:	2002-04-18 12:12:17 UTC

245 Re: The Commodore (SPOILER) -- rank: 669

Nick Coleman wrote: > Spoilers Below > * > > * > > * > > Forgive me if this has been discussed before; it probably has, but I haven't seen it so it may benefit some newer lissuns. > > I finished "The Commodore" this morning and it struck me that the close is very different to that of the previous half-dozen books. They close with unfinished tensions, sub-plots unresolved, half-way through action episondes. This book closes with all the loose end ...

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Message Date:	2002-04-18 11:29:38 UTC

246 The Commodore (SPOILER) -- rank: 669

Spoilers Below * * * Forgive me if this has been discussed before; it probably has, but I haven't seen it so it may benefit some newer lissuns. I finished "The Commodore" this morning and it struck me that the close is very different to that of the previous half-dozen books. They close with unfinished tensions, sub-plots unresolved, half-way through action episondes. This book closes with all the loose ends in the canon resolved: Stephen is reunited with a loving Diana, Jack has ...

Poster's Name:	Nick Coleman
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Message Date:	2002-04-18 02:23:53 UTC

247 Re: THE COMMODORE: (non-spoiler) POB's views expressed through his writing? -- rank: 669

> From: The Patrick O'Brian List of the World! > [mailto:GUNROOM@HMSSURPRISE.ORG] On Behalf Of Susan Wenger > Sent: Tuesday, 24 July 2001 08:14 > To: GUNROOM@HMSSURPRISE.ORG > Subject: THE COMMODORE: (non-spoiler) POB's views expressed > through his writing? > > > Here's something I sent to Searoom which I think Gunroom > might also consider. I'm double-posting this because it > is very significant to me. > > In "The Commodore," Steph ...

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Message Date:	2001-07-24 00:51:05 UTC

248 THE COMMODORE: (non-spoiler) POB's views expressed through his writing? -- rank: 669

Here's something I sent to Searoom which I think Gunroom might also consider. I'm double-posting this because it is very significant to me. In "The Commodore," Stephen tells Jack all about Adanson, and then he remembers that he'd already told Jack all about Adanson previously. (NOTE: THAT WAS IN "THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL.") Why did O'Brian expend a page of print on something that > O'BRIAN knew he'd already covered? I think it's because this was something really ...

Poster's Name:	Susan Wenger
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Message Date:	2001-07-23 22:12:11 UTC

249 Re: THE COMMODORE -- rank: 669

Mary S wrote: >"...six English pennies: these he arranged in two lines and then altered the >position of three so that they, always being in contact with two others, >formed a circle with the third movement." > >Huh? Wazzat? Can any of =you= do it? The rules being slightly ambiguous, I'll rephrase it as: Start with six pennies arranged in two lines. Move three different pennies, such that at the end of the move, the penny moved is in contact with two others. ...

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Message Date:	2000-03-22 16:48:55 UTC

250 THE COMMODORE -- rank: 669

Well, I'm the better part of the way through THE COMMODORE and rather sad that the end of all is so near in view. On p. 204 Stephen has commerce with a Greek, a Mr. Houmouzios - I feel sure that POB is amusing himself with a variant of the Greek phrase which became so important in the history of the Christian Church, "Homoousios." And he identifies himself to Mr H in the following manner "...six English pennies: these he arranged in two lines and then altered the p ...

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Message Date:	2000-03-22 16:13:00 UTC

251 The Commodore - spare copy has found a new home! -- rank: 669

In article <6NeTaBAehYE1Iwzv@ashton.demon.co.uk>, Susan Ashton <susan@ashton.demon.co.uk> writes >The subject line says it all I guess - somehow I have managed to >acquire 2 identical copies of the Harper Collins 1995 paperback, >both pristine, neither read more than once or twice. Offer now closed - strewth, you lot are quick! Congrats to David Girardot and apologies to the others - you know who you are:-)

Poster's Name:	Susan Ashton
Poster's Email:	susan@ashton.demon.co.uk
Message Date:	1998-03-20 00:27:56 UTC

252 Re: The Commodore - spare copy needs good home. -- rank: 669

In a message dated 98-03-19 16:27:34 EST, susan@ashton.demon.co.uk writes: << Free of charge to the first lissun to get their snailmail address into my mailbox. >> How noble!! Doesn't Susan live in England? But this is a great idea. I, too, have a give-away. I have finished 'The Perfect Storm' which we discussed here. It is well worth reading, IMHO, although I don't recommend it to anyone intending to make the Rose trip (like me). Scary stuff but inspiring, too. Send me your ...

Poster's Name:	Faith mus
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Message Date:	1998-03-19 22:27:41 UTC

253 The Commodore - spare copy needs good home. -- rank: 669

The subject line says it all I guess - somehow I have managed to acquire 2 identical copies of the Harper Collins 1995 paperback, both pristine, neither read more than once or twice. Free of charge to the first lissun to get their snailmail address into my mailbox. Thinks - perhaps I have hit upon a new form of alchemy and could make a new career in cloning books - might make up for all the ones reported missing in suspicious circumstances by the rest of you....

Poster's Name:	Susan Ashton
Poster's Email:	susan@ashton.demon.co.uk
Message Date:	1998-03-19 22:05:38 UTC

254 Re: Tendentious but Serious etc [The Commodore Spoiler] -- rank: 669

** Reply to note from 'Gerry STREY'<gerry.strey@ccmail.adp.wisc.edu> Wed, 04 Mar 98 08:06:29 -0600 > > > Jack has always seemed to me to be the more stable, integrated > character. How great a part does heredity play in personality > development? I ask because Jack does not seem to have had a > particularly 'normal' childhood. His mother died when he was very young; > his father, though sporadically indulgent, seem to have been uninvolved in > his upbringing; ...

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Message Date:	1998-03-05 15:29:59 UTC

255 tendentious but serious question (Spoiler: The Commodore) -- rank: 669

Listening to Tull's magisterial reading of THE COMMODORE, part where Stephen, listening to Jack's playing his Guarneri, realizes what a magnificent musician Jack has become, the 'secret man of the world' in this talent, and surely others -- we begin to appreciate how much Jack has grown, as artist, scientist, mathematician, in addition to his other lively virtues. My question -- which I realize may be greeted with groans, starts, protests, especially coming from a shrink -- but nonetheless qui ...

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Message Date:	1998-03-04 04:32:51 UTC