in the mail, from Amazon, my long-awaited copy of Defoe's General History of the Pyrates. (Except, of course, that it may not be by Defoe at all -- I'll get into that later.)
I love introductions, postcripts, notes, indices, glossaries and all that scholarly apparatus crap -- they're like foreplay, to me -- and this edition is absolutely stacked. Even more I love maps and diagrams. One of my abiding ambitions is to write books that will make publishers want to put maps in, and this one has tons of maps, illustrations, and even reproductions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century diagrams of ships.
This is practically porn -- like, really good porn, with hot lesbians and professional camerawork and everything. Best twenty bucks I've spent in a long long time, and I haven't even really started reading it.
I love introductions, postcripts, notes, indices, glossaries and all that scholarly apparatus crap -- they're like foreplay, to me -- and this edition is absolutely stacked. Even more I love maps and diagrams. One of my abiding ambitions is to write books that will make publishers want to put maps in, and this one has tons of maps, illustrations, and even reproductions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century diagrams of ships.
This is practically porn -- like, really good porn, with hot lesbians and professional camerawork and everything. Best twenty bucks I've spent in a long long time, and I haven't even really started reading it.
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