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Jan. 14th, 2007 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnySuccessful shopping trip today. I bought a tweed skirt (finally!) top and cardigan for work, Amon Tobin's soundtrack to Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory - which is far cooler music than I'm used to on computer games - various shiny shampoos and pretty green nailvarnish. More pleasing still, my sister and I managed to spend time with each other without yelling, maiming or death, so that was nice.
(I have to say that communities with names like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
harlequin_sga shouldn't be allowed. They just encourage me.)
Also! I have found a new hero, to join William Dampier. Seriously, this guy sounds awesome and I really need to find out more about him. This is what I want to do with my life:
"...there were a few educated pirates, notably Major Stede Bonnet. At his trial in Charleston, South Carolina, the judge described him as 'a Gentleman that have had the advantage of a liberal education, and being generally esteemed a Man of Letters.' Bonnet had lived in comfortable circumstances on the island of Barbados until he suddenly tired of his life there. At his own expense he fitted out a sloop with ten guns, assembled a crew of seventy, and embarked on a career as a pirate. He plundered a succession of ships off the coast of Virginia and Carolina, and then joined up with Blackbeard and his crew. Bonnet's problem was that he had no seafaring experience and was therefore not equipped to command a ship. He was persuaded by Blackbeard to hand over his sloop and an experienced seaman took over as captain. The Boston News Letter of 11 November 1717 reported that Bonnet had been observed on Blackbeard's ship, and that he 'has no command, he walks about in his morning gown, and then to his books of which he has a good library aboard.'"
From Life Among the Pirates: The romance and the reality by David Cordingly.
*beams*
I mean, okay, death sentence obviously not so good. But PIRATE LIBRARY. DRESSING GOWN. Add in tea and, just, dude.
(I have to say that communities with names like
harlequin_sga shouldn't be allowed. They just encourage me.)Also! I have found a new hero, to join William Dampier. Seriously, this guy sounds awesome and I really need to find out more about him. This is what I want to do with my life:
"...there were a few educated pirates, notably Major Stede Bonnet. At his trial in Charleston, South Carolina, the judge described him as 'a Gentleman that have had the advantage of a liberal education, and being generally esteemed a Man of Letters.' Bonnet had lived in comfortable circumstances on the island of Barbados until he suddenly tired of his life there. At his own expense he fitted out a sloop with ten guns, assembled a crew of seventy, and embarked on a career as a pirate. He plundered a succession of ships off the coast of Virginia and Carolina, and then joined up with Blackbeard and his crew. Bonnet's problem was that he had no seafaring experience and was therefore not equipped to command a ship. He was persuaded by Blackbeard to hand over his sloop and an experienced seaman took over as captain. The Boston News Letter of 11 November 1717 reported that Bonnet had been observed on Blackbeard's ship, and that he 'has no command, he walks about in his morning gown, and then to his books of which he has a good library aboard.'"
From Life Among the Pirates: The romance and the reality by David Cordingly.
*beams*
I mean, okay, death sentence obviously not so good. But PIRATE LIBRARY. DRESSING GOWN. Add in tea and, just, dude.
