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Thoughts about the 11th book in the Aubrey-Maturin series, which I just finished rereading earlier today. VERY SPOILERY! Do not click if you haven't read the book; this will spoil the finest moment in the entire series (IMHO). ( You have been warned! )

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gblvr made this for me when I first got onto LJ. You can probably guess my major fandom at the time.

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The movie meme, plus recent discussions with some of my Tin Man peeps reminded me of one of my favorite movies EVAR and I just had to make an icon. Actually, four.



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We're at church this morning and the priest is telling us about St. Augustine - the reading that inspired St. Aug. to turn from his worldly ways was the second reading today. So Father is going on about how St. Augustine used to be all about the pleasures of the flesh - fine food, fine clothes, mistresses - and I leaned over and whispered to my husband, "He was not a practicing saint at the time." Hubby had to work very hard to keep a straight face. :-)

(It's a line from one of the Aubrey-Maturin books - the one in which Jack learns that he has a natural son by a long-ago girlfriend. Stephen tells him that St. Augustine also fathered a son out-of-wedlock, which elates Jack so much that Stephen has to remind him gently "Of course, he was not a practicing saint at the time.")

Got this from cimmerianwillow, who got it from cortese. You go to
http://www.m-w.com (Merriam-Webster dictionary online) and type in your username, and see what it suggests.

Suggestions for amedia:
1. Ahmed III
2. acedia
3. amide
4. amidase
5. amides
6. amid
7. Amami
8. Emden
9. amido
10. Amati
11. aramid


3, 4, 5, 9, and 11 are all related words referring to compounds derived from ammonia, which may be organic or inorganic depending on what atom or molecule you replace with what.

My favorite, though, is Ahmed III, who turned out to be a 17th-century Ottoman sultan.

And I am highly, highly tickled by #10, because Jack and Stephen are always burbling about various makes of violin, and I'm pretty sure I've run across mentions of Amati at least once so far in the Aubrey/Maturin books, so it's actually sorta relevant.

Have been perusing the unaptly-named "Flowing Sheet" archive of gen Aubrey-Maturin fic, and this story struck me very funny:

http://hmssurprise.org/Fiction/flowing_sheet2/Unnatural_History.htm

It isn't simply the absurdity that makes it funny; it's the very O'Brian-ish way it's told. It's short, too.

Oh, and speaking of short, this one's definitely got the very soul of wit:

http://hmssurprise.org/Fiction/flowing_sheet2/Daily_Custom.htm

Enjoy!

Now that I've seen and thoroughly enjoyed the movie, I'm now embarking on the project of reading all the books straight through in order, having previously read bits and pieces and had other bits and pieces read or reported to me.

Given that I have twenty books to read, I don't really need fanfic yet, but since when has that ever stopped me?

Here's a link to the first piece of Aubrey-Maturin fanfic I ever read, back in 1997. It's not slash, but nonetheless has considerable emotional intensity:

http://www.hmssurprise.org/Fiction/flowing_sheet1/Twilight_of_the_Gods.html

And here's a piece I read very recently, which occupies a lovely position somewhere between slashy and slashable:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/astolat/34032.html