A Marriage of True Minds

[eglantine_br]

Title: The Marriage of True Minds

Author Eglantine_br

Rating G-ish (Barf and blood.)

Word Count 564

The Marriage of True Minds

Pellew's great bedroom-- the one with the Captain in it. 1 a.m., Dec 24th

“Everyone tucked in for the night?” Susan's eyes were dark and sleepy.

Comments

[anteros_lmc]

Heh, brilliant. That made me laugh out loud. Cleveland and Horatio have clearly led sheltered lives. Archie, I suspect, knows all about everything - as usual. I can just imagine Archie singing Blood Red Roses, though I can't quite see him as a whaler!

Ned has my sympathies. What do cats always throw up in your shoes? My old cat used to do exactly the same thing.

It's such a treat when you write the boys, you're so far under their skin, it's like hearing their own voices.

[eglantine_br]

I am under their skin, or they are under mine. Hard to remember how I thought I was alive before I found them.

Horatio knows about it in a book learning sort of way. Sort of the way he knows about botany or something. He never applies the knowledge to specific humans. He would not be so rude.

Cleveland is going to try as hard as he can to never apply it to anyone but Saphronia.

Archie, as you say, is well informed and a very practical guy. He is, as we have seen, blisteringly rude when he feels it is called for.

[anteros_lmc]

Archie's unapologetic rudeness is one of the things I admire about him the most.

[nodbear]

I concur about the under the skin too :)

[mylodon]

I may be wrong but I believe the blood red roses were the capital cities of Europe.

[eglantine_br]

I just looked it up. Nobody seems very sure. Possibly spouting whales, or the red coats of Marines. They may also represent the way blood looks in water. (Sea battles or whaling.) That is what I was thinking of-- water stained with blood, and the way that they don't mix right away, but sort of swirl together.

I, for some reason, do not think of that as a whaling song. It has the usual number of 'alternate' verses. Sources do agree that it is a halyard shanty. (Archie just likes the way it prickles the back of his neck.)

[anteros_lmc]

I think it's The Bonnie Bunch Of Roses that's supposed to refer to either the cities of Europe or the British empire, depending on who you listen too. If you're interested, there's a long and involved discussion about the meaning of Blood Red Roses on Mudcat here. It's entirely contradictory, but none the less fascinating :}

[charliecochrane]

That's the last time I believe what I read on CD covers.

[esmerelda_t]

I like to think the cat Pellew put out was the tiger that ended up in the tower menagerie!

[nodbear]

or else it was a moggy but exacting revenge for having to share Ned's affections with diverse oriental quadrupeds ...