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([personal profile] deralte Oct. 11th, 2003 04:17 pm)
Dear Ariana,

Stop looking up books on piracy in the library (even if they have such hilarious titles as Sodomy: A Pirate Tradition.) You have better things to do with your time.

Sincerly,
Your Sanity

Dear Your Sanity,

Where the hell did you come from and do you know how I can exorcise you, preferably without holy water or copious amounts of vomiting?

Love,
Ariana
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From: [personal profile] siria


Sodomy: A Pirate Tradition.

*chokes on tea*

Hmm. My uni has a copyright library which (theoretically) means they should have every book printed in the British Isles since 1801... I wonder if the librarians would look at me amiss if I ordered that from the stacks.
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From: [identity profile] deralte.livejournal.com


Mwahaha! Go for it. I'd be reading it now if the library hadn't lost their only copy...
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From: [personal profile] siria


*grins* Who knows? I might just write some (very historically accurate and traditional) pirate sodomy!fic to celebrate my reading it >:D
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From: [personal profile] siria


Wah. Trinity don't have it! And the Amazon reviews made it seem so giggle inducing interesting as well:

"The chapter on hot racking was especially revealing, considering 90% of all pirates engaged in that. "

Although it does seem as if the college has 'Gay warriors : a documentary history from the ancient world to the present' by the same author. I am intrigued, and wish to know more. >:D
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From: [identity profile] deralte.livejournal.com


*snickering madly*

Ah, the joys of researching this type of history... There's apparently another book called Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Idenity... These authors seem awful eager to find their sodomy...

Gay Warriors does sound interesting. You must tell me how it is;)
ext_4030: Branch of holly with its binomial name, Ilex aquifolium (I spy rum)

From: [identity profile] strangefrontier.livejournal.com


The disturbing thing is that I found both of those books (Sodomy & the Pirate Tradition and Rum, Sodomy & the Lash) in my random amazon.co.uk browsing, and thought "Hey, those look quite interesting!" I just stuck to Cordingly's Under the Black Flag, a general history of piracy, which is v interesting. the only related book I could find in the pitifully wee town library here was The Making of New World Slavery, but I'll probably only read the Caribbean chapters in that.
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From: [identity profile] deralte.livejournal.com


I ended up picking up a general history on piracy as well (since I read my last history of pirates when I was 10...). Oh the things that entertaining summer movies make us do...
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