Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Thomas Cochrane
A profile of one of the real-life models for Patrick O'Brians Captain "Lucky Jack" Aubrey. I recently bought a biography of Cochrane and will post a review when I have a chance to read it.
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