it started at the pre race cocktail party when I noticed the crew shirts of one of our competitors. "always be who you are. But if you can't be who you are, be a pirate. And then always be a pirate".
during Sauvage's nightlong hibernation in a 'hole', I mused on these profound words. It occurred to me that we, as a civilization, have lost the values of pirates. One of which we agreed upon was the use and practice of the word 'plundering'. Nobody plunders anymore or at least gets recognized and acknowledged for it. And for that our civilization, such as it is, is less for it.
So, Spille and I speculated upon the possibility of reestablishing this long lost practice. First of all, we would need a Letter of Marque. You know, like Queen Elizabeth gave Sir Francis Drake. It's kind of like a James Bond 'license to kill' except, it's a license to plunder.
How would we, humble dirt farmers from the Oxnard plain, acquire this? Easy, we figured. For a nominal sum, we were sure any one of a half dozen south American dictators would provide us with one. Of course, they would need to be cut in on our bounty. But, hey, they're used to that.
So with such a document at hand, we on Sauvage would be free to plunder the seacoasts of the Pacific. Roaming where and when we chose .
We agreed that by documenting our experience we could easily turn this experience into a movie or an HBO series. We could call it "Plundering Bad" or "Bad Plundering" perhaps. Each episode would feature a different city or village. Naturally we would become celebrities. This in turn could lead to creating a profession of plundering -- or, just a different perhaps more exotic label for what our politicians already do. We could offer university degrees in plundering, contests, an Olympic event even.
I'm inspired!
-Lord Jim
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