I’m doing Aubrey/Maturin too, but this time as audiobooks. Requires some zoning out when he really gets his technical terms on, but Patrick Tull is an excellent reader, and particularly good at capturing Maturin’s sardonic ellipticality.
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this time I used annotations and online vocab readers to actually try and figure out what the hell was going on in some of the naval scenes
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You’re a braver man than I. But I think there is a fine essay to be written on O’Brian as the great conservative political writer of our time (
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my impression, by the way, is that the naval battles are not actually particularly consistent if you try to map them out, in part because POB generally took historical encounters and modified them in a different setting for his own ends.
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He was reputed to be no great hand himself as a sailor. But still, the general impression is convincing. On a different matter entirely, I've wondered for years whether an Aubrey-Maturin Lovecraft mash-up might not serve quite well.
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"Jack, I have it in mind to behold the great shoggoth in its accustomed clime. Not the common shoggoth, the squalid and dwarfish creature that it is. But the true shoggoth, the Antarctic shoggoth."
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In retrospect, should be "I am with child to behold ... &c&c ..."
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'Jack had come to mathematics late, and so took a true delight in it, both terrestrially and celestially. It was this knowledge that disquieted him now amid the unnatural curves of the sunken city. "Stephen," he said, "I am only a very simple fellow, but those stars ain't right."
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`The protoplasmic mass heaved slowly into the cabin. The tiny skeletons of several millers suffused with madder were visible within its pellucid depths, as was a severed boy’s arm. Maturin glanced from Aubrey to young Reade and back again. “Jack! You have debauched my shoggoth!”
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The Shelmerstonians are indeed quite perfect for the purpose. To do it at length, you'd be wanting @blujowalton or someone to do the idea justice. There might be others - my sense is that there is a great overlap between Aubrey-Maturin and f/sf fandom.
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