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+1 to that. tl;dr This needs a whole series of novels. Oh wait. There already is one: https://www.soundingsonline.com/features/the-real-jack-aubrey https://ww
by AlbertCory 3y ago
+1 to that. tl;dr
This needs a whole series of novels. Oh wait. There already is one:
https://www.soundingsonline.com/features/the-real-jack-aubrey https://www.soundingsonline.com/features/the-real-jack-aubre...
- usrusr 3y agoSo that's where both Stephenson and Disney got the first name of their concurrently written Jacks from (I assume that both Shaftoe and Sparrow were already public when BBC writers created Harkness who is basically the same character as the other two)
- AlbertCory 3y ago"Jack" - a great name for a pirate or sea captain. "Morris", "Herman", "Nigel", "Cuthbert" - not so much. Follow me for more fiction advice.
- saghm 3y agoI always assumed that at least one of them was inspired by the Billy Joel song
- syncsynchalt 3y agoHah, I was thinking this sounded a lot like "Lucky Jack". I remembered that O'Brian had drawn on a lot of captain's logs for the novels but still based a lot of him on a single captain, but I wasn't sure if this was the man until your comment.