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Although perhaps lacking in realistic portions of "rum, sodomy and the lash" (do I misremember an odd keelhauling in all the twenty plus books?), as expectable
by B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago
Although perhaps lacking in realistic portions of "rum, sodomy and the lash" (do I misremember an odd keelhauling in all the twenty plus books?), as expectable from a polite gentleman.
- kirrent 10y agoI should assume keel hauling would have to be a false memory. It was never very common in the British Navy and abolished far before then. However, I believe it's referenced to as a comparison to the brutality of flogging around the fleet as a punishment in one book.
- douche 10y agoFrom my recollections (I read through the whole series about a year ago), there was plenty of rum involved... If the amounts of alcohol that nearly everyone was drinking at all times is accurate, they would be considered complete, irredeemable alcoholics today. Of course, Maturin is up there with Sherlock in the list of high-functioning literary drug addicts.