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To: Solon who wrote (59118)	10/2/2014 12:52:20 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

You've been caught red handed in your lie and everyone can see that you're a pathological liar.

To: Solon who wrote (59118)	10/2/2014 3:01:26 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

*The Lesser of Two Weevils* ~ "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World "~ If you haven't seen this film , you are in for a special treat. Set in the the days of early Darwin discovery near & on the Galapagos Islands. It depicts with complete authenticity life onboard an English Admiralty ship during the Napoleanic wars, with much Darwin in the mix & the glimpses of the early Enlightenement, nominated for 10 academy awards. . This was the age of Bligh and Cook and of voyages of discovery as well as conquest, and when HMS Surprise makes landfall in the Galapagos Islands we get a beautifully filmed sequence about how the dawn of scientific enlightenment might have felt." [8] Roger Ebert gave the movie 4 stars out of 4, saying that "it achieves the epic without losing sight of the human". [7] Christopher Hitchens finds "the summa of O'Brian's genius was the invention of Dr. Stephen Maturin. He is the ship's gifted surgeon, but he is also a scientist, an espionage agent for the Admiralty, a man of part Irish and part Catalan birth—and a revolutionary. He joins the British side, having earlier fought against it, because of his hatred for Bonaparte's betrayal of the principles of 1789—principles that are perfectly obscure to bluff Capt. Jack Aubrey.Any cinematic adaptation of O'Brian must stand or fall by its success in representing this figure. On this the film doesn't even fall, let alone stand. It skips the whole project." He finds the actions scenes more inspirational: "In one respect the action lives up to its fictional and actual inspiration