http://newsrackblog.com/2004/01/23/give-you-joy-of-it/ a citizen's journal by Thomas Nephew Thu, 17 May 2012 22:27:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://newsrackblog.com/2004/01/23/give-you-joy-of-it/#comment-5416 Spock is Dr Stephen Maturin « Back to Basics Sun, 31 May 2009 06:33:43 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/wp/?p=1010#comment-5416 [...] Blog entry by Thomas Nephew – “Give you joy of it” “One of the main satisfactions of these stories is experiencing the friendship of the different, complementary personalities of Aubrey and Maturin. It may be that this is one of the main paths to succeeding with extended narratives, so that we have Spock and Kirk, Holmes and Watson, Maturin and Aubrey. / Yet for all that I’m a devoted Star Trek viewer and Sherlock Holmes reader, O’Brian’s accomplishment is deeper, because the two are more completely realized characters… “ [...] [...] Blog entry by Thomas Nephew – “Give you joy of it” “One of the main satisfactions of these stories is experiencing the friendship of the different, complementary personalities of Aubrey and Maturin. It may be that this is one of the main paths to succeeding with extended narratives, so that we have Spock and Kirk, Holmes and Watson, Maturin and Aubrey. / Yet for all that I’m a devoted Star Trek viewer and Sherlock Holmes reader, O’Brian’s accomplishment is deeper, because the two are more completely realized characters… “ [...]

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