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Getting more used to the language, maybe just skipping where HM gets too dense for me. Maybe he's just mostly finished with contextualizing naval life in the times of the tale.
It is painfully obvious that the villain has repressed homosexual tendencies and is in love with Billy. Or, as it also can happen, Billy represents what he wishes he could be himself, and hates the guileless boy for that. The old Dane got it.
— Oct 27, 2023 11:56AM
It is painfully obvious that the villain has repressed homosexual tendencies and is in love with Billy. Or, as it also can happen, Billy represents what he wishes he could be himself, and hates the guileless boy for that. The old Dane got it.
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I am having a hard time understanding what this book is about. As a fellow reader put it in his review, I guess I am being "put off by 19th-century diction" and having trouble with the nautical terminology which "isn't so thick that a modern-day landlubber like myself can't understand it well enough to follow the basic narrative".
I am put off by both things and the historic recap of naval battles and mutinies.
— Oct 25, 2023 12:32PM
I am put off by both things and the historic recap of naval battles and mutinies.
