SPQR Blues 3 part LXXXI

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[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I wish I could explain it. Clearly it be having something to do with Talk Like A Pirate Day, which day it be today, arrr, matey, holystone the poop deck, avast, ye swabs.

I am not very expert at talking like a pirate.

Pirate talk

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For a quick exploration of bonafide pirate lingo, see RL Stevenson's "Treasure Island" the font of all wisdom when it comes to pirates. DRW.

Re: Pirate talk

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I do love RLS. There's one of his short, lesser-known books I'd love to turn into a graphic novel. I doubt I'll ever convince my company to take on the project, so I'll just have to do it myself in all my spare time :)

Arrrrrr.

Re: Pirate talk

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Which one is it ?

There's a "Master of Ballantrae" comic adaptation here in France, and I've read several "Treasure Island" and "Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde" adaptations, but most of them are totally uninteresting because they don't add anything to the story and instead they are leaving things out... Stevenson isn't actually very easy to adapt.

Re: Pirate talk

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

It's a nonfiction account of part of his own life after leaving home as a young man. I think it'd be a great thing to adapt--it has adventure, a little romance, history, interesting scenery, a variety of peculiar characters, and some beautifully poetic descriptions that could be included as-is. At first balked at doing it myself because of the amount of visual research I'd have to do, but now... I really do think I'll make it a personal project, once I'm feeling perkier. I want to be the first person to get at it (that I know of!).

I recently found out RLS liked to doodle, himself :)