A Loose Cannon
Dec 12, 2020 09:23:59 #
This is what I believe we have between now and noon on 20Jan2021. A very dangerous loose cannon!
Excerpt from "NINETY-THREE" by Victor Hugo, 1874:
"One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pound cannon, had become loose.
This is perhaps the most dreadful thing that can take place at sea. Nothing more terrible can happen to a man-of-war under full sail."
The relevant description of the cannon episode is in Part 1, Book Two, Chapters IV and V.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49372/49372-h/49372-h.htm#IVa
"A bullet shaken in a bottle could not produce sharper or more rapid sounds. The four wheels were passing and repassing over the dead bodies, cutting and tearing them to pieces, and the five corpses had become five trunks rolling hither and thither; the heads seemed to cry out; streams of blood flowed over the deck, following the motion of the ship. The ceiling, damaged in several places, had begun to give way. The whole ship was filled with a dreadful tumult."
Marshall
Excerpt from "NINETY-THREE" by Victor Hugo, 1874:
"One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pound cannon, had become loose.
This is perhaps the most dreadful thing that can take place at sea. Nothing more terrible can happen to a man-of-war under full sail."
The relevant description of the cannon episode is in Part 1, Book Two, Chapters IV and V.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49372/49372-h/49372-h.htm#IVa
"A bullet shaken in a bottle could not produce sharper or more rapid sounds. The four wheels were passing and repassing over the dead bodies, cutting and tearing them to pieces, and the five corpses had become five trunks rolling hither and thither; the heads seemed to cry out; streams of blood flowed over the deck, following the motion of the ship. The ceiling, damaged in several places, had begun to give way. The whole ship was filled with a dreadful tumult."
Marshall
Dec 12, 2020 10:33:45 #
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