Comments for Sailor Twain Or The Mermaid In The Hudson http://sailortwain.com Mark Siegel's webcomic Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on SailorTwain349 by Daniel Shippey http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10830 Daniel Shippey Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:58:35 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10830 One thing that I've always wished a movie would do is simulate the tricks our eyes play on us in the twilight and near water. Where your eyes flash over something and you see something quite distinctly but when you look back that isn't what you thought at all. A short while back I woke up with a hooded and cloaked shadow leaning over my bed. After just about jumping out of my skin I could see that it was a dress my wife had hung beside the bed. Twain saw a stag. BTW Mark I pay close attention to the first words of books and plays. Hamlet begins with the words "Who's there?" and isn't that what the whole play is about? Twain begins in an almost anti- Melville way with the words "Don't call me Captain!" when the man is clearly dressed as a captain. It's a wonderful opening Mark. Don't feel any pressure about the last lines ; ) "I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee". I One thing that I’ve always wished a movie would do is simulate the tricks our eyes play on us in the twilight and near water. Where your eyes flash over something and you see something quite distinctly but when you look back that isn’t what you thought at all. A short while back I woke up with a hooded and cloaked shadow leaning over my bed. After just about jumping out of my skin I could see that it was a dress my wife had hung beside the bed. Twain saw a stag.
BTW Mark I pay close attention to the first words of books and plays. Hamlet begins with the words “Who’s there?” and isn’t that what the whole play is about? Twain begins in an almost anti- Melville way with the words “Don’t call me Captain!” when the man is clearly dressed as a captain. It’s a wonderful opening Mark. Don’t feel any pressure about the last lines ; ) “I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee”. I

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Deschutes River http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10828 Deschutes River Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:49:00 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10828 Stags, especially white ones, are supposed to be magical, and lead followers to someplace else. Given that Lafayette Lines distinguishes themselves with "black cap'd captains," it would fit that this particular stage would be black too! http://sailortwain.com/blog/2011/09/26/sailortwain281/ Stags, especially white ones, are supposed to be magical, and lead followers to someplace else. Given that Lafayette Lines distinguishes themselves with “black cap’d captains,” it would fit that this particular stage would be black too! http://sailortwain.com/blog/2011/09/26/sailortwain281/

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Amanda http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10827 Amanda Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:21:18 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10827 I just spent the last two hours going back through the entirety of Sailor Twain just because of this page instead of starting my whale hunting paper.... so worth it. Cannot wait for Friday! I just spent the last two hours going back through the entirety of Sailor Twain just because of this page instead of starting my whale hunting paper…. so worth it. Cannot wait for Friday!

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Lauren http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10825 Lauren Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:00:33 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10825 Oh Laura, that is astute. Oh Laura, that is astute.

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Lauren http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10824 Lauren Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:58:15 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10824 I'm flipping back and forth between this and page 16... are there supposed to be minor differences? Kind of interesting how memories can blur after the passing of time. Happy Lizzie Jennings Day! I’m flipping back and forth between this and page 16… are there supposed to be minor differences? Kind of interesting how memories can blur after the passing of time.

Happy Lizzie Jennings Day!

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Laura http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10823 Laura Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:04:55 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10823 I will say that I love it when the story goes back to itself. Love it. It's funny, at the time that happened, I thought that our mermaid looked differently to Lafayette than she did to Twain. (That there was no stag.) I will say that I love it when the story goes back to itself. Love it.

It’s funny, at the time that happened, I thought that our mermaid looked differently to Lafayette than she did to Twain. (That there was no stag.)

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Socratys http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10822 Socratys Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:09:30 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10822 This also makes sense. Bravo. This also makes sense. Bravo.

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Firehound http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10821 Firehound Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:54:09 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10821 I knew it! A lovely confluence of two unrelated (?) events. Beautiful done, Mark! And excellent observation, Salty. I wholeheartedly agree! I knew it! A lovely confluence of two unrelated (?) events. Beautiful done, Mark! And excellent observation, Salty. I wholeheartedly agree!

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Teowulf http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10820 Teowulf Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:19:39 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10820 Oh wow, completely missed that before. Though I suppose that's what I get for not having reread it. Oh wow, completely missed that before. Though I suppose that’s what I get for not having reread it.

]]> Comment on SailorTwain349 by Salty Aire http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10818 Salty Aire Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:10:30 +0000 http://sailortwain.com/blog/2012/02/22/sailortwain349/#comment-10818 In some ways, we’ve made many strides since then and in others not. In some ways, we’ve made many strides since then and in others not.

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