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St. Stephen Maturin

And then it was transleted into czech as

Which is basically...: "You are corrupting my sloth...you beast...you scoundrel."

And I think they should have translated it as "Ty houpá děvko...Ty darebáku." which would be: "You dumb slut...you scoundrel" which sounds much better.

I really like that thats a thing shared across languages

Just someone nasty and dirty.

Watching birds at Port Mahon

It's my first time watching it on blu-ray so maybe that explains why I missed it. But look, you can see it here, Stephen asks Jack to put a hand on his belly...

Here we see Stephen's hand grabbing the scalpel up top, while Jack has placed his below. And then...

...Stephen puts his other hand over Jack's while he makes the incision.

At the breakfast-table, with a fine view of the narrows and the now silent Elsinore, Stephen said, 'So you were Ophelia in your youth, Captain Aubrey.' 'A part of Ophelia. But in this case the part was greater than the whole: I was called back three times, and the other fellows were not called back at all, even the one that was drowned in a green dress with sprigs. Three times, upon my honour!' 'How did the poor young lady come to be divided up?' 'Why, there was only one midshipman in the flagship pretty enough for a girl, but his voice was broke and he could not keep in tune neither; so for the part where she has to sing, I put on the dress and piped up with my back to the audience. But neither of us was going to be drowned and buried in real earth, Admiral or no Admiral, so that part fell to a youngster who could not defend himself; and that made three of us, do you see.' Jack smiled, his mind going back to the West Indies, where the performance had taken place; and after a while he sang: 'Young men will do't An they come to't By Cock they are to blame. Yes, alas; and it all ended unhappy, as I recall.' 'So it did, too,' said Stephen, 'the pity of the world.