Comments | captainbarbossa: Closer to Jack

captainbarbossa

Closer to Jack

Sep 26, 2004 10:21

Is there any truth to the saying: keep your friends close, and your enemies closer?

( To the undoubtedly keen nose of The Black Pearl's first mate, the backwater Tortuga tavern reeks of three distinctive odors: grime-encrusted sweat, piss-poor rum, and the especially offending stench of Jack Sparrow's boundless pride. )

jack sparrow, theatrical muse

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niankhsekhmet October 12 2004, 17:28:22 UTC

As I mentioned in our conversation, I really love the imagery that you have evoked here. I remember quite well pubs like the one you describe - in fact one of them is a biker bar just across the street from the store where I work! ;-)

I particularly liked this bit:

The one thing he never expected from Jack Sparrow was friendship, for Barbossa has neither friends nor the desire to cultivate them. He has only enemies, and those in spades: a multitude of sorry souls who ceased to serve his purposes (or never served them to begin with). In failing to render himself Barbossa's unwitting pawn, Jack Sparrow is dangerously close to being numbered among the useless.This captures in one small paragraph the root of the entire anomosity between Captain Hector Barbossa and Captain Jack Sparrow. It also provides the basis of how you see Captain Barbossa interact with every single member of his crew, and everyone else outside of that crew. And further, it sets up the dynamic of every other encounter that anyone else could possibly have with ( ... )