The Art of Piracy
Imaginary Worlds
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Our flag means death has a feeling of magic realism. Sea gulls can talk, if you just give them subtitles. And the dialogue is very anachronistic. Sometimes life on the pirate ship feels more like a pirate version of the office. There was a feat back loop in the eighteenth century between people who became pirates and people who read stories about pirates. It's similar to the feedback loop between science fiction and real technology.
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