{"id":421,"date":"2006-05-28T17:19:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T21:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=421"},"modified":"2024-03-24T21:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T01:46:56","slug":"obrian_08spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/05\/obrian_08spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Brian, Patrick: (08) The Ionian Mission<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPOILERS for The Ionian Mission<\/cite><\/strong>; here’s the non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n

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The marital discord I foretold for Stephen and Diana has yet to appear. I hope I was wrong; their arrangements in the first part of the book seem quite sensible and indicative of a real understanding.<\/p>\n

Other relationship news: William Babbington and Harte’s daughter? Who is to marry Andrew Wray? Oh dearie me. (I think I forgot to say, last time, that I did very much enjoy Jack and Sophie’s reunion.)<\/p>\n

Mr Martin, the parson and bird lover, giving us a newbie’s eye on the Fleet, in case we needed the reminder. I looked up the Biblical passage about the quails; it really does exist, he wasn’t making it up for the purpose.<\/p>\n

Harte is not very intelligent or cunning. As he had to give Jack written orders, which did not mention the plan behind sending Dryad<\/cite> in alone, he must’ve known that things would fall out as they had. Once Jack insisted on written orders, he should have made the plan explicit: Jack would certainly have refused, and then Harte would’ve been in the right.<\/p>\n

Poetry; works from this era tend to sound sing-songy and uninteresting to me regardless, but all the same—I regretted listening rather than reading, and not being able to skim past.<\/p>\n

Aww, back in the Surprise<\/cite>, that sentimental favorite. Until we met the last of Turkish claimants, I thought Jack would choose Mustapha—all bluff fighting men together. Handy that Jack’s prejudices about what a Turk should be matched the worth of the various claimants, that.<\/p>\n

It seems, from the description, that the conquest of Marga must be a foregone conclusion once Kutali is assured; doubtless it would have been an anti-climax to go on to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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