From LtH, right before we get back to England again and that black frosty day made better by bumping bits with your former 5th lieutenant:
That was something [Bush] had never experienced; in his earliest youth he had entered the navy as a midshipman —- the peacetime navy which he could hardly remember -- and during the nine years of the war he had only known two short intervals of leave.
I'm such a moron for not noticing this before. *FACEPALMS*
And yes, there's a definite whiff of the Enlightenment around Hornblower with his love of mathematics and rationality and tendency to value institutions insofar as they're useful to him/humanity. He also has that Enlightenment urge to conquer the world by knoweldge -- like, that thing where he likes prepping for the geographic area that he's going to be in?
He's also got that crazy Romantic love of the sea and freedom, though ahaha. :D I know there's a book where he totally talks smack about Byron.
Re: OMG it's another diatribe *tells self to STFU*
I'm such a moron for not noticing this before. *FACEPALMS*
And yes, there's a definite whiff of the Enlightenment around Hornblower with his love of mathematics and rationality and tendency to value institutions insofar as they're useful to him/humanity. He also has that Enlightenment urge to conquer the world by knoweldge -- like, that thing where he likes prepping for the geographic area that he's going to be in?
He's also got that crazy Romantic love of the sea and freedom, though ahaha. :D I know there's a book where he totally talks smack about Byron.