Inconvenience

[Ian Livingston]

cool. looks like I have some time for reading....

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:22 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "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
>>
>



-- 
"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