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mycological-mariner · 5 months

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You know, I was just going to post the bit about Ballantyne making a mistake on the thickness of coconuts and then going to live in lighthouses and with tin miners and on war ships and trawlers to be as accurate as possible in his fiction, but then the second paragraph hit me like a train

#like #okay first paragraph: he’s just like me fr!#I do that #just. go live with some Cornish tin miners in st just for 3 months why not #I’m sorry but REFORM PROSTITUTES??#’a la Gladstone’ is not an ‘a la’ you wanna be ‘a la’d with #I haven’t started deep down yet so I can’t speak to the ‘sadistic’ nature of some of his scenes #yo wtf #if I had to read it so do you #book is Ballantyne the Brave #I’ve not read it yet but.#dude #what kind of personality must someone like that have.#idk #but I read his article from his time aboard HMS THUNDERER (oooh I can’t wait to go off about that)#(the ship not ballantyne)#rm ballantyne

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