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This is a section from "A General History of the Pirates", the 1955 edition edited by Arthur Hayward. It demonstrates why reading about pirates is fun, I think. For some background, this is about Charles Vane, a pirate captain who had been recently wrecked by a tornado on a deserted island in the Caribbean, and who was trying to get off said island so he wouldn't die of stavation and whatnot ;) I've kept all the punctiation and (lack of) paragraphing from this edition. Enjoy :D

"While Vane was upon this island a ship put in from Jamaica for water, the captain of which, one Holford, an old buccaneer, happened to be of Vane's acquaintance. He thought this a good opportunity to get off, and accordingly applied to his old friend. But he absolutely refused him, saying to him, Charles, I shan't trust you aboard my ship unless I carry you a prisoner ; for I shall have you caballing with my men, knock me on the head, and run away with my ship a-pirating. Vane made all the protestations of honour in the world to him. But, it seems, Captain Holford was too intimately acquainted with him to repose any confidence at all in his words or oaths. He told him He might easily find a way to get off, if he had a mind to. I am now going down to the Bay, says he, and shall return hither in about a month ; and if I find you upon the island when I come back I'll carry you to Jamaica and hang you. Which way can I get away? answers Vane. Are there not fisherman's dories upon the beach? Can't you take one of them, replied Holford. What, says Vane, would you have me steal a dory, then? Do you make it a matter of conscience? said Holford, to steal a dory, when you have been a common robber and Pirate, stealing ships and cargoes, and plundering all mankind that fell in your way? Stay there, and be d--ned if you are so squeamish ; and so left him.

Things I did today:

Woke/got up around 10. Did 2 hours or so of internet stuff including reading webcomics and chapter 13 (I'm keeping count, at least) of the story that vess is writing in his journal. Anyone who is interested should be able to find it in my memories. I recommend, and I'm not biased at all, honest ;). I also did e-mailing for Chains (Vampire PBEM/LARP game). And sundry other bits.
Conspired with Mary about the mall later. Worked on dissertation stuff (I'm not actually writing, I'm making lists of pirate flags and such at the moment).
Then around 3 (I think), M&I appeared, and we went to the mall. The purpose in this was to pick up some things that Mary and I need for the dig this summer, and see if we could find a copy of Warcraft III for Ian.

Things I got, in order of expense:
Sunglases (20 pounds... reasonable)
Sunscreen, SPF60. (12 pounds. INSANE, even if it was buy one get one free...)
Mach 3 razor and pack of 5 new blades (5.25 pounds. Sane/reasonable only because when you bought the blades, you got a free razor which also comes with two new blades)
Flashlight (4.99. Okay, but there was another one I saw after I'd bought this one that I'd have prefered. Oh well. And they call 'em torches here, for the record, even though there is no fire...)
Exacto-knife (3.99. Reasonable. And sharp, whee! I used it to open the flashlight package ;)
Neutrogena shampoo (2.99. Reasonable)
Neutrogena Conditioner (reasonable... though I am spoiled from buy 2-in-one...)
8 cookies (2.99. Yum!)
All-purpose glue (1.35. Reasonable. *sniff* ;)
Knee pads and gardening gloves (1 pound each. Yay for Poundland!)
Blue nylon string/twine (60 p. huzzah. Blue string.)
3 rolls sparkly tape (49 p. oooh, shiny....)

That's it. Oh, wait, I bought supper (2 spinach and cheese pies (so I can pretent they are healthy ;), and a pepsi), and a coke at the theatre.

Went to see Minority report, which Kicks Ass.

Now, I'm home and waiting for EiS to start, miao...

And get my stuff ready for tomorrow. I must remember a sweater this time! And dance stuff... should be a good weekend :o I wish I could see the whole wedding, but I'll take what I can get, I guess... And then I get to come home and play Pebbley Shores! I hope I can stay coherent enough for it :o

I have a fun game to play at the movies, because I keep all my ticket stubbs, and they have the names, or part of the names from various movies on them... So to kill time before the previews and whatnot start, I rearrange them into fun new titles... You can't ignore any words on the stubs, and you can't add any new ones. This time, with njfuzzy's help, I rearranged them all into one big long title...

The Time Lord of the Ice Age Rat Race Training The Other Ice Age Star Wars Minority: The Count From Hell.

hee! :D

Mary thought we were odd too ;D

(Side note: You *can* do the YMCA quite nicely to the refrain from This Corrosion ^-^)