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496 Re: USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

> From: Doug Essinger-Hileman [mailto:revref@INTERIOR-CASTLE.ORG] > Sent: Monday, 17 January 2000 15:33 > To: PATRICKOBRIAN@NORTON2.WWNORTON.COM > Subject: Re: USA Today Review of BATM > > > On 15 Jan 00, at 9:06, Aime' Fraser wrote: > > > but that I scrupulously avoid it whenever possible. On > > this day, however, my very considerate spice handed > > over the offensive rag > > Would that be your very considerate nutmeg? or cinnamon? ...

Poster's Name:	Peter Mackay
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Message Date:	2000-01-17 04:37:05 UTC

497 Re: USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

On 15 Jan 00, at 9:06, Aime' Fraser wrote: > but that I scrupulously avoid it whenever possible. On > this day, however, my very considerate spice handed > over the offensive rag Would that be your very considerate nutmeg? or cinnamon? I remain, &c., Doug Essinger-Hileman List Greeter Ordinaire 39°51'06"N 79°54'01"W

Poster's Name:	Doug Essinger-Hileman
Poster's Email:	revref@INTERIOR-CASTLE.ORG
Message Date:	2000-01-17 04:33:43 UTC

498 USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

My intellectuals were not up to par yesterday, and when I read a rather insipid and disappointing review in USA Today I thought I'd wait to see what the Gunroom had to say. I was surprised no one else mentioned it. Ah, I know why! I bet no one in this august company stoops to such a level. It's just too lowbrow for the Gunroom. In my defense let me state that it does indeed come into my house each weekday (home delivered no less), but that I scrupulously avoid it whenever possible. On t ...

Poster's Name:	Aime' Fraser
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Message Date:	2000-01-15 14:10:03 UTC

499 Re: BATM Chapter 2 - REAL SPOILERS!!! LONG -- rank: 633

Rowen84@aol.com wrote: >Second question: does this intimate that he DID write something >"indiscreet", that perhaps warned Christine about his intentions and >interest? She seems to be quite expecting (dreading?) his attentions when he >gets there. (Chapter 5 - p. 108) Are we to assume that there was some kind of >imprudent remark? I think he was afraid that she would resent the siege leading up to the proposal as familiarity instead of friendship. Which I fini ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-14 18:39:05 UTC

500 Re: BATM Chapter 2 - REAL SPOILERS!!! LONG -- rank: 633

Rowen writes 1/14/2000 >Warning - Serious BATM spoilers - delete now if you have NOT yet read BATM >and don't want to know about anything about it. > > > > > > > > > >I've been rereading BATM, and several things are coming up which I'm hoping >someone can shed some further light on. Re Stephen: What do we make of this sentence: "The dread of an >impropriety, of an unwarranted evidence of affection - indelicate in the last >degre ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-14 05:45:48 UTC

501 BATM Chapter 2 - REAL SPOILERS!!! LONG -- rank: 633

Warning - Serious BATM spoilers - delete now if you have NOT yet read BATM and don't want to know about anything about it. I've been rereading BATM, and several things are coming up which I'm hoping someone can shed some further light on. Chpt. 2 begins with a very humorous discussion of Lord Barmouth's thought processes re possible horns, influence, and the better part of valor (this is PRIME POB!); an example of Jack's apparent innocence in certain respects, as well as his ability to k ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-14 04:33:30 UTC

502 Re: sub species wasRe: Final Thoughts Today -- and a BATM Spoiler -- rank: 633

I like the Shakespeare quote. Most apropos Cheers, Patricia HrgSmes@AOL.COM wrote: > going back over the last two novels I do believe that these were written > with a poignant consciousness of his own mortality and specially informed > by the feeling of writing 'sub species aeternitatis" i do not say that the > intimation of mortality was there at all times and as intensely but I think > it lead to a peculiar compression which some critics have not liked. I was ...

Poster's Name:	Patricia Lynne Strong, MSW
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Message Date:	2000-01-13 03:11:22 UTC

503 Re: BATM SPOILER: Re: Final Thoughts Today - and the 3 Chapters -- rank: 633

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, at 17:48:43, Susan Wenger wrote: >Now that the series is concluded: any thoughts on the >nickname "Lucky Jack?" {SNIP} >He was unlucky in his land activities, unlucky in >finances, unlucky in his dealings with the brass. Lucky >Jack? Perhaps the phrase "lucky as Jack Aubrey" will enter the vernacular to describe one who is successful in their own narrow field due to merit and more, but is constantly brought up short in his or her ...

Poster's Name:	Michael R. Ward
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Message Date:	2000-01-10 16:41:11 UTC

504 Re: Why Jack and the Navy? Small BATM SPOILER -- rank: 633

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Susan Wenger wrote: > Adventure! A young boy of Jack Aubrey's temperament > would have been irresistably drawn to the sea. He'd have > run away several times to join, only to be told to come > back when he's older, bigger. Remember when his nephew > Phillip was so heartbroken at not being allowed to run > away to sea? Small SPOILER for BATM follows: Susan has support from none other than PO'B himself. In BATM, Stephen mentions (in a letter) tha ...

Poster's Name:	Chris Moseley
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Message Date:	2000-01-10 16:24:39 UTC

505 Re: BATM SPOILER: Re: Final Thoughts Today - and the 3 Chapters -- rank: 633

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, at 17:48:43, Susan Wenger wrote: >Now that the series is concluded: any thoughts on the >nickname "Lucky Jack?" {SNIP} >He was unlucky in his land activities, unlucky in >finances, unlucky in his dealings with the brass. Lucky >Jack? Having once been known as "Bilgewater Bob", I find no fault with the name "Lucky Jack". While Jack has his reverses on land, he does seem to recover from them. He becomes a member of Parli ...

Poster's Name:	Bob Kegel
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Message Date:	2000-01-09 06:57:44 UTC

506 Re: BATM SPOILER: Re: Final Thoughts Today - and the 3 Chapters -- rank: 633

>I think you are entirely correct -- "Lucky Jack Aubrey" has a far different >ring to it and much more befitting the man. Applying gangster-style names to >nautical heroes ... Horatio "Blind Eye" Nelson. Thomas "Crazy Tommy" >Cochrane. Preserved "the Silver Polisher" Killick. Surely, Preserved "Toasted Cheese" Killick. Perhaps Stephen "Mother Naked" Maturin. Maybe Admiral "French Fart" Harte. Greg &quo ...

Poster's Name:	Greg Henrikson
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Message Date:	2000-01-09 04:36:08 UTC

507 Re: BATM SPOILER: Re: Final Thoughts Today - and the 3 Chapters -- rank: 633

At 9:26 PM -0500 1/8/00, Marian Van Til wrote: >In a message dated 1/8/2000 8:49:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, >susanwenger@YAHOO.COM writes: > > > Now that the series is concluded: any thoughts on the > > nickname "Lucky Jack?" Other people hung that tag on him > > - WE know that he was heroically brave, strong, clever: > > he was successful, and they attributed his success to > > luck. He was unlucky in his land activities, unlucky ...

Poster's Name:	Mark W. Fowler
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Message Date:	2000-01-09 04:22:23 UTC

508 Re: BATM SPOILER: Re: Final Thoughts Today - and the 3 Chapters -- rank: 633

In a message dated 1/8/00 9:27:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, RxBACH@AOL.COM writes: << Somehow "Lucky Jack Aubrey" -- as some of the seamen  sometimes referred to him -- is different than mere "Lucky Jack." The latter  is a name that could be -- and is -- applied to restaurants, dogs, and  gangsters. >> I think you are entirely correct -- "Lucky Jack Aubrey" has a far different ring to it and much more befitting the man. Applying gangster-style na ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-09 03:57:11 UTC

509 Re: BATM SPOILER: Re: Final Thoughts Today - and the 3 Chapters -- rank: 633

In a message dated 1/8/2000 8:49:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, susanwenger@YAHOO.COM writes: > Now that the series is concluded: any thoughts on the > nickname "Lucky Jack?" Other people hung that tag on him > - WE know that he was heroically brave, strong, clever: > he was successful, and they attributed his success to > luck. He was unlucky in his land activities, unlucky in > finances, unlucky in his dealings with the brass. Lucky > Jack? I don ...

Poster's Name:	Marian Van Til
Poster's Email:	RxBACH@AOL.COM
Message Date:	2000-01-09 02:28:40 UTC

510 Re: BATM SPOILER: Re: Final Thoughts Today - and the 3 Chapters -- rank: 633

In a message dated 1/8/00 8:58:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, ghenrikson@CUSTOMCPU.COM writes: << ince reading BATM, I haven't been able to shake the feeling that HMS  Surprise never makes it around the Horn again. They seem bound to run  aground, or worse. Is that just my morbid pessimism? Maybe the cloud I saw  on the horizon was POB's impending passing. >> It seems to me that in one of the interviews that POB gave during his recent trip to the US that he mentioned he had a ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-09 02:15:13 UTC