Pulo Aura and Nathaniel Dance

The "Action of 15 February 1804" , also known as the Battle of Pulo-Aura from a nearby island, was a naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars between British convoy of lightly armed merchant ships and forces of the First French Empire. The commodore of the merchant fleet in the book is Captain Muffit, who has taken the position of RL Captain Nathaniel Dance. From Alastair Wilson’s Who is Who in Naval History from 1550 to the Present : Captain Nathaniel Dance (1748-1827) . If the Dance entry... read more

Jealous ? I mean, it was painfully obvious. Poor man. But Jealousy over a whore is rather imprudent. New Picadilly Street ======================================== ======================================== Nathaniel sits on the short brick wall beside Ashleigh, talking to the other man - smirking, as usual.  "Mind-porn doesn't begin to cover it, though it's a perk.  I'm a telepath.  I can fuck with your brain until you don't know your own ass from Mister Zero's dick." Ashleigh snorts slightly...

Ridiculous fool. Honestly, what was the point of injuring that waiter? I do not know what is wrong with this city, but -- quite obviously, something is. Very wrong. I do not, also, know what is wrong with me. I mean, I know people. I may not like them, but I know them very well -- I must, in order to do my job. I know what gets them -- what makes them happy, what turns them on -- I observe them far too closely (and perhaps this is why I cannot stand them); and, so, I also know what buttons...

I am a skeptic by nature.  It is not usual that I believe something right away, just because I read it somewhere or watch something on television.  I am not spiritual or religious and I generally don't believe in anything.  But there is one thing that has caught my attention:  Aura reading... Yes, I know, "Addie has finally lost it.  She has jumped on the hippy bandwagon and sooner or later she will end up in a gutter like the raving lunatic that she is, telling people that the end is nigh!".  ...

On pages 135-137 Jim’s plan to set fire to the monument goes into action.  I especially love the way he describes this process:  “…If Tommy cared about that building in the first place, and knows it was a waste of time to sneak his mind inside of it… if all that’s true, and only if, and that’s such a massive if… I think I knew him superficially enough to understand what I would have to do to make this eyesore, quote, fucking awesome, end quote” (136). Jim never actually admits to setting fire...

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