jackandmaxanne:Long John Silver’s story is a hard one to know. The men who believed most deepl

jackandmaxanne:

Long John Silver’s story is a hard one to know. The men who believed most deeply in it were ultimately destroyed by it. And those who stood to benefit most from it were the most eager to leave it all behind. Until all that remains of any of it are stories bearing only a passing resemblance to the world the rest of us lived in. A world we survived. A world that is no more.

BLACK SAILS XXXVIII. April 2, 2017