Most memorable maritime descriptive phrases?
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Most memorable maritime descriptive phrases?
There were still some incoming mortar rounds, so the Hawke broke away from the other ships, looking for a vector that wouldn't endanger their own ground forces. Several minutes later the destroyer found the angle she required and with deadly efficiency silenced the remaining pockets of resistance.
Both of these excerpts appeared around page 58, but were there some others that caught your immediate attention too?The air stank with sweat, spent gunpowder, fuses, and projectiles. It clung to the men like cheap perfume on a Filipina hooker.
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Oh I know!! Can you imagine sleeping like sardines in a windowless room or being the “rat guard” guy that had to keep rodents from boarding the ship up the rope lines? Craziness for sure.ciecheesemeister wrote: ↑28 Nov 2019, 19:00 I enjoyed reading the descriptions when Zack first boarded the ship of its corridors and the small space the men have to sleep. I certainly wouldn't want to be confined to such myself!
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Most definitely! It seems like such an appealing offer in a sense, and those persuasive marketing campaigns have the same effect now as they did 100 years ago. Whether it’s Uncle Sam on a poster pointing into your soul while saying “I Want You” or the local recruiters promising “you’ll see the world AND get college paid for”... the multitude of benefits and trade-offs certainly have to be kept in balance. But to young, naive curiously ambitious men and women, the illusion will always offer great temptations! And possibly create more well-rounded people as a result.
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It was an ideal situation: carbohydrates from rice, protein from rats, and pesos from sailors from the surplus of both.
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Recruiter's promise to the Naval apprentice are good. However, through this novel I am a bit sad because in exchange for the soldiers' lives, a little compensation for their health issues was not granted. They did best, but in reciprocal of the government, they were mistŗeated.AvidBibliophile wrote: ↑29 Nov 2019, 01:08Most definitely! It seems like such an appealing offer in a sense, and those persuasive marketing campaigns have the same effect now as they did 100 years ago. Whether it’s Uncle Sam on a poster pointing into your soul while saying “I Want You” or the local recruiters promising “you’ll see the world AND get college paid for”... the multitude of benefits and trade-offs certainly have to be kept in balance. But to young, naive curiously ambitious men and women, the illusion will always offer great temptations! And possibly create more well-rounded people as a result.
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At the end of the day, that's probably what we all want in life: love, loyalty, and a purposePatrick Nandi wrote: ↑29 Nov 2019, 23:18 That's certainly a great piece because the greatest ambition for the naval seal is to serve and they will surely serve so with the persuasion making them feel both wanted, needed and loved.
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Miller captures a vision of hauntingly memorable macabre mutilation, and floats it in a diaphanous moment of suspended animation... There is something traumatically disturbing about watching a person expire, but I think the paired moment of eternal peace that inevitably follows is what most complicates that split-second emotion burned into our minds.In his dream he saw their souls, gray-green ethereal wisps, rise skyward leaving their bodies as soon as they stopped their spasms. He saw the sampan slowly sink down beneath the waves, and watched the clear blue water cleanse and cover their mutilated bodies.
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I was put in mind of Micky Spillane's Mike Hammer when I read these two passages.AvidBibliophile wrote: ↑27 Nov 2019, 18:53 While absorbing this maritime tale through Miller's inclusion of poignant and descriptive language, a few phrases stood out to me as especially unique, memorable, or of the uniquely "military mindset" variety...
There were still some incoming mortar rounds, so the Hawke broke away from the other ships, looking for a vector that wouldn't endanger their own ground forces. Several minutes later the destroyer found the angle she required and with deadly efficiency silenced the remaining pockets of resistance.Both of these excerpts appeared around page 58, but were there some others that caught your immediate attention too?The air stank with sweat, spent gunpowder, fuses, and projectiles. It clung to the men like cheap perfume on a Filipina hooker.
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Okay, so I admittedly had to look up your reference to Micky Spillane's Mike Hammer

(I was born in 1984 so this particular mention was uncharted waters for me, haha)
but I can just imagine how a private eye battling crime in NYC might utter a few colorful phrases just the same! Thanks for introducing me to a new classic. Hope you enjoyed the book!
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I really marvel at the phrasing of that slogan. It captures so much interest from me and I can only imagine how it did for young men back in the day when air travel wasn't quite as widespread as it is in our times. It just feels a bit like cheating if I'm being honest. Poor men don't know what they're getting themselves into.
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