Inconvenience

[jochen stremmel]

Apropos nice: when it comes to prose style there are very few
novelists as brilliant as Patrick O'Brian.

2011/10/31 Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>:
>> inconvenience, the mortal inconvenience, of rising too high."
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> Nice.
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> 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
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>> Inconvenience, The
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>> 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).
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>> 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
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