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posted by [personal profile] the_dala at 03:42pm on 24/04/2005
Heeeeeee. The bibliography will of course go up with the paper, but I just have to recommend Richard Dunn's Slaves and Sugar: the Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713, for no other reason than the fact that Dunn is...well, let's call him colorful. In describing the quake, all the other authors are like, "Fluidized layer, it sank, people died." Dunn is all "ELEMENTAL POWER OF JUDGEMENT DAY! CATACLYSM! GIANT TREMORS! SUCKED THIRTY FEET UNDER WATER! MACABRE SCENE! TUMBLING HUMAN CARCASSES AND SKELETONS!" I'd block quote him on every page if I could get away with it.

Sufficiently cheered up by Dunn's sensationalist prose.
Mood:: 'amused' amused
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posted by [identity profile] tiggothy.livejournal.com at 07:50pm on 24/04/2005
Wow. Sounds fantastic.

*wonders if it's too soon to start an I-want-for-Christmas list*
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posted by [identity profile] meletor-et-al.livejournal.com at 08:26pm on 24/04/2005
*giggle*

I love it when people make stuff overblown and silly. Yay, Dunn!
And.

Have I said yet that this sounds like a v. cool paper?
Because it So. Does.
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posted by [identity profile] monkeypuzzle.livejournal.com at 09:07pm on 24/04/2005
Did Dunn mention the ship Swan? 'Cause when I first heard about it I started laughing my ass off, not because of the actual event, but well SWAN!!

I will definately have to pick that book up. :-)
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