Since it’s time for another Smakebit – a «taster» – (though I skipped a week) here’s another Jack quote:
‘Why, Stephen, some people are in a hurry: men-of-war, for instance. It is no good carrying your pig to market and finding…’ He paused, frowning.
‘It will not drink?’
‘No, it ain’t that neither.’
‘That there are no pokes to be had?’
‘Oh well, be damned to literary airs and graces’
Page 114 in The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O’Brian.
It is quite all right to skip a week, but, of course, it is nice to have you sharing a teaser with us again.
An amusing teaser you shared with us this week 🙂
En spennende smakebit fra en bok jeg ikke har hørt om.
Great teaser. I tried the first book in this series ones, but got lost in all the sail ship terminology. Maybe I should try again.
Thanks, Mari and Astridterese – I’m likely going to be skipping more weeks, being a most inconstant blogger, but at least I’ll try, I think it’s an excellent idea.
Eva: I think you should try again. The sailing terms can on the whole be ignored, unless you really want to understand them, they’re not that important to the story 🙂