Posts by gallimore@twit.social
 (DIR) Post #APV5tR5T4aCzX0eJii by gallimore@twit.social
       2022-11-11T14:28:25Z
       
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       Since childhood I read, over and over, C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series.  I'll probably read them again, but it's like reading Alistair MacLean.  It's not necessarily a criticism but I contend that Hornblower is really World War II Royal Navy culture applied to the age of sail.  Forester did not seek nor apply the cultural and social history or anthropology found in Patrick O'Brian's work.
       
 (DIR) Post #APVEv063IFeJzKk9j6 by gallimore@twit.social
       2022-11-11T18:47:38Z
       
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       @leo I studied that era in grad school (Jefferson's presidency), after having read O'Brian's novels.  O'Brian's grasp of the Napoleonic Era was magnificent.  Even subtleties of language or colonial cultures in those novels are impressive.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac2nTbZvi3cUJQGDR2 by gallimore@twit.social
       2023-11-21T21:41:48Z
       
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       @mttaggart I overhear someone saying they "went to Bruma" and I wrack my middle-aged brain to remember if that's character in Kings Quest 4: the Perils of Rosella, a dungeon in Ultima 6: the False Prophet, a city in Loom, a town in Oblivion: Elder Scrolls, a planet in the Mass Effect or Star Wars universes, a suburb of the ruins of Washington D.C. in Fallout, or a real suburb of real Philadelphia.