The map, though. Which amused me for the shape of the general location of Florida, but otherwise was rather interesting. Not sure why that was sticking in my head anymore than I am why Mercer and Beckett, whose names I couldn't remember the first time through. But, hey. Something about it slowly getting filled in, wrong or not.
The map was of interest to me because it is slowly being filled in: the world is being reduced to the limits of reason, the measurable miles between one coast and another, and nowhere on that map is there room for mermaids or krakens or anything that currency cannot control. While our heroes are preparing to sail into some weird and mythic waters indeed. There's a visible division being set up between the modern, rational world, and the old and strange one that still underlies it. And there's Jack, whom Cutler Beckett views as a relic of a dying age, who "must find a place in the new world or perish." Hence I am intrigued by your suggestion that Beckett isn't after Davy Jones' heart at all: does he believe in such maritime superstitions? And if not, what is it that he wants?
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Date: 2006-07-19 03:49 pm (UTC)The map was of interest to me because it is slowly being filled in: the world is being reduced to the limits of reason, the measurable miles between one coast and another, and nowhere on that map is there room for mermaids or krakens or anything that currency cannot control. While our heroes are preparing to sail into some weird and mythic waters indeed. There's a visible division being set up between the modern, rational world, and the old and strange one that still underlies it. And there's Jack, whom Cutler Beckett views as a relic of a dying age, who "must find a place in the new world or perish." Hence I am intrigued by your suggestion that Beckett isn't after Davy Jones' heart at all: does he believe in such maritime superstitions? And if not, what is it that he wants?