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[ghazalah]

For Jack, a wise warrior
South Atlantic, December 1811

'My God, oh my God, six hundred men.'

--Desolation Island

InsensibilityI

Comments

[all_ahoo]

Ai! *snuggles Jack and his compassion*

This was lovely :-)

[ghazalah]

That scene presents the very image of a noble captain of men, doesn't it. *proud to know him*

Bonus if you can tell me what "fleer" means.

[all_ahoo]

I would have said "one who flees"...dictionary.com defines it as to leer or mock. Neither really makes sense in the context...

[ghazalah]

I had the same problem. Wilfred's got us beat on this one.

[juliebeth]

Why I love Jack: his compassion for his enemy.

[ghazalah]

He has the biggest, purest heart. I believe that's why Stephen clings to him so tightly. As Sivi said in KD, Jack has the innocent heart that Stephen lost so long ago.

[ghazalah]

Of course I don't mind! Thank you for your kind words! Are you a Stephen fan, or a poetry fan, or... ? An Old English fan at least, I see by your name. :-)

[ghazalah]

I spent a happy year slogging through it in college. :-) I was suckered into it by a professor from England, who would read passages from Anglo-Saxon poems in the loveliest voice...

I studied German the same year, and that turned out to be a really great idea. It helped me see the connection between Old English and Modern English. German fills in the blanks between them, both with vocabulary and orthography.

I wish I still remembered either one of them. Pffft. But the Stephen Luv has me learning a bit of Catalan, so that's good!

[chazzbanner]

What struck me so much in that DI scene was how all the other sailors thought Jack was strange for even thinking about all enemy dead -- almost as though he were running mad.

[ghazalah]

I know! They figured it was because of the knock on the head he got! Harsh.

That was really a great chapter. I stayed up til 1am to finish it. (I couldn't just leave them there, with the Waakzaamheid closing on them!)

[ann_septimus]

1. Wilfred Owen is beautiful. And the context makes it moreso. "The eternal reciprocity of tears"... so perfect.

2. Your icon is pretty and sad.

[ghazalah]

ashinae is to blame for the words on the icon. Have you seen her Jack/Stephen vid Over Seas of Silence? I'm in love with it.

It started out intending to be a happy icon. I don't know what happened: it got away from me and ran off with an angst-bunny.

[ann_septimus]

I luuuuuuuuuv that video to absolute death and watch it far too much. It's just... cozy and perfect and lovely.

it got away from me and ran off with an angst-bunny

*giggles* The image that creates! Brilliance.

[ghazalah]

One of the great things about that vid is how she avoids saying too much. It seems difficult, with those two, to get just the right amount of Big Love, especially since either one of them would shrivel up and die before they admitted to being more than ordinary friends. I don't mean that in a slashy sense. They have an extraordinary love, but they reveal it in deeds, and NEVER in words.

*heart*