<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 1, 2008 2:57 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com">danldo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> What becomes of Chris' son?<br><br></div>Or daughter?</blockquote><div><br>I suppose I just assumed it would be a son for thematic reasons... rather silly of me, I'm afraid.<br><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> What did Chris do to get confused for a Dutchman or a German?
<br><br></div>He's blond?</blockquote><div><br>He is, isn't he? I guess I need to work on my close-reading. <br><br>Furthermore, how did that biography of Chris know he vanished when sailing alone? I gathered that he kept a pretty low profile after the disastrous meeting with Lesage. Did Ignacio or Novia tell people the story? If so, why? If they wanted to become respectable, wouldn't they want to avoid mentioning their former occupations as pirates?
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Any thoughts on other pirate fiction that might have gone into PF? I'm
<br>> wondering in particular about Captain Blood, which from what I gather has<br>> some ideas Wolfe might like. Alas, I haven't read the book or seen the<br>> movie, so I can't elaborate too much. Still, I know that the book is about a
<br>> Catholic forced into piracy and his attempts to remain honest.<br><br></div>I've not seen or read Captain Blood, but one thing worth looking at (if<br>only as a comparator) is Tim Powers' ON STRANGER TIDES. Tim is the
<br>other great Catholic SFF writer today, and his take on pirates is very<br>different indeed...<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>I agree that would be a valuable place to look. Thanks for the suggestion, though I won't be able to read OST for quite a while (It's not available where I'm spending the next six months).
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