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Sometimes it feels like this book is 75% nautical jargon I don't understand. Cool but mostly meaningless words:

"'Trice up. Lay out.'

The calls agin, and the topmen hurried out on the yards. They cast off the gaskets, the lines that held the sails tight furled to the yards; they gathered the canvas.

'Sheet home. Hoist away. Cheerly there in the foretop. T'garns'l sheets. Hands to the braces. Belay'" (76).

its been 8 years since ive read this so i forgot how much i forgot about these books!!!!! im having so much FUN i'd die for jack and stephen i really would

"She despised her scrub of a husband, who truckled to her; and she had taken to music as a relief from him. But it did not seem that music was enough, for now she poured out a bumper and drank it off with a very practised air" (27).

By learning to obey, they are also taught how to command.

That's one of the best conversations I've read in all of fiction.