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silverjohn:

Black Sails (2014 -2017)

Long John Silver’s story is a hard one to know. The men who believed most deeply in it were ultimately destroyed by it. And those who stood to benefit most from it were the most eager to leave it all behind. Until all that remains of any of it are stories bearing only a passable resemblance to the world the rest of us lived in. A world we survived. A world that is no more.

jamesemcgraw:

“I was standing on the dock when, by the merest accident, I fell in talk with him. I found he was an old sailor, kept a public-house, knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again. He had hobbled down there that morning, he said, to get a smell of the salt. I was monstrously touched and, out of pure pity, I engaged him on the spot to be ship’s cook. LONG JOHN SILVER, he is called…”  

Treasure Island – Part Two: The Sea-cook