Thatâs right. We arrived together, but she departed before I did.
There are honest, noble men in the Navy. They become warped by their circumstances. Or they maintain that goodness and pay the price for it.
I knew a man [ loved a man, settled down for a man, killed for a man, died for a man ] in that place who had been a lieutenant in Her Majestyâs Royal Navy. He was a good man. More loyal and true than anyone youâve ever met, and a damn good navigator, too. But soft spoken, and from modest means. Passed up for promotion endlessly. Sent on a suicide mission to the Arctic to find a new trade route that might make a few rich men more money and faster. They got trapped in the ice for years, as supplies dwindled. Ravaged by scurvy and lead poisoning from cheaply soldered tins, waiting for help that never came because the Navy deemed it less expensive to simply cut their losses. When things got desperate, the bad men ate the good ones, but it didnât buy them much time. Two entire ships full of men, dead on the ice because the ones in charge, thousands of miles away, deemed it so.
If the building has been rotted out, it doesnât matter if there are a few good planks left in it. Itâs still got to be torn down. And there's the difference. "Pirates" are not an organization, there is no power structure enforcing everyone's misery. We elect our captains, we are free to leave without the threat of prison, and we stay in the sun, for God's sake.
cannibalism, the plot of AMC's the terror??? sorry.
There are honest, noble men in the Navy. They become warped by their circumstances. Or they maintain that goodness and pay the price for it.
I knew a man [ loved a man, settled down for a man, killed for a man, died for a man ] in that place who had been a lieutenant in Her Majestyâs Royal Navy. He was a good man. More loyal and true than anyone youâve ever met, and a damn good navigator, too. But soft spoken, and from modest means. Passed up for promotion endlessly. Sent on a suicide mission to the Arctic to find a new trade route that might make a few rich men more money and faster. They got trapped in the ice for years, as supplies dwindled. Ravaged by scurvy and lead poisoning from cheaply soldered tins, waiting for help that never came because the Navy deemed it less expensive to simply cut their losses. When things got desperate, the bad men ate the good ones, but it didnât buy them much time. Two entire ships full of men, dead on the ice because the ones in charge, thousands of miles away, deemed it so.
If the building has been rotted out, it doesnât matter if there are a few good planks left in it. Itâs still got to be torn down. And there's the difference. "Pirates" are not an organization, there is no power structure enforcing everyone's misery. We elect our captains, we are free to leave without the threat of prison, and we stay in the sun, for God's sake.