Inconvenience

[Ian Livingston]

> inconvenience, the mortal inconvenience, of rising too high."

Nice.

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12110386
>
> Inconvenience, The
>
> 3; Chums of Chance's hydrogen skyship; in Mason & Dixon H.M.S.
> Inconvenience was a ship that Fender-Belly Bodine once sailed in.
> Another possible source for the skyship's name can be found in Patrick
> O'Brian's 1988 novel, The Letter of Marque, from a scene in which the
> naval surgeon Stephen Maturin remarks to a British admiral, "We were
> speaking of balloons, sir, and you were trying to recollect the
> details of a device you had thought of for doing away with the
> inconvenience, the mortal inconvenience, of rising too high." (p.
> 3875, The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, W. W. Norton, 2004).
>
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=I
>



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant