torchwatch #7: vanilla planet

actually i wz on the phone for the first whole first half (w.my favourite irl pirate) but even so I REST MY CASE

formal sublemma:
i. captain kidd
ii. captain flint
iii. captain slaughterboard
iv. captain jack sparrow
v. captain jack harkness

1. FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on November 29th, 2006

   iia. CAPTAIN NEMO! (note also: when small i thought nemo’s submarine was called the NAUGHTINESS!)

2. Kat on November 30th, 2006

   Captain AHAB. I am on page 536, still no plot apart from his leg fell off and he had to get a new one.

3. FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on November 30th, 2006

   b-but is ahab a pirate captain? — the crew are def not “masterless men” as they sign ship’s articles on land in presence of the ships’ owners (=peleg and the other one)

   nevertheless ahab is MAD and considers himself not answerable to peleg and the other one, at least in matters moby: hence i think the answer (re PIRATE) is actually yes, but hmmm it needs some further explication

   (further evidence: the entire book, from title on down, is about teh HOTT GHEY SECHS)

4. FT's Tim on November 30th, 2006

   Captain Caveman
   CAPTAIN SENSIBLE.

   Capstan Full-Strength.

5. Kat on November 30th, 2006

   They all seem to be bonkers enough to be pirates anyway. Queequeg has just decided that he’s not going to die of the ill after all because he had “forgotten to do something ashore”, and has instantly recovered. After the crew had gone to the trouble of making him a coffin and everything.

   Pirate Captain Nancy?

6. Chap on December 4th, 2006

   The correct answer is Captain Haddock.