King Tom
King Tom deserves a post...
King Tom was skipper of the brig Lightning in Rescue.
He had another name, Tom Lingard, but the girl kept calling him King Tom.
In the end, the white folk just walk away... and that's ultimately the point I guess, except it comes at the cost of King Tom's honor, and his honor was his life, and so... well he goes sailing north, instead of into the sunset.
The sunsets were magnifique! The shallows were magique!
I think there are always faults in Conrad's stories... Sometimes his characters are stupid, but I suppose that's not unusual in the real world whereever that is found. I will never be in the shallows of the south seas; but now I have been.
King Tom was skipper of the brig Lightning in Rescue.
He had another name, Tom Lingard, but the girl kept calling him King Tom.
In the end, the white folk just walk away... and that's ultimately the point I guess, except it comes at the cost of King Tom's honor, and his honor was his life, and so... well he goes sailing north, instead of into the sunset.
The sunsets were magnifique! The shallows were magique!
I think there are always faults in Conrad's stories... Sometimes his characters are stupid, but I suppose that's not unusual in the real world whereever that is found. I will never be in the shallows of the south seas; but now I have been.
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