so.
what is the context to that? anyone know? I could imagine a bout of some food poisoning or something affecting the ship.
I assumed it was something more inconsequential and personal. It’s the sort of thing I usually say after doing something particularly embarrassing that I can’t get out of my head…
Oh, there’s a lot things it could have been.
Late night caused by the guy next door getting drunk and trying his hand at singing opera.
Getting rejected because barnacles reek;
Finding out the rum is gone…
Finding out the rum is gone…
Why is it always?
I don’t know about this quote specificly, but Darwin spent almost 10 years working on barnacles to establish himself and came to hate them. It was supposed to be a quick detour before releasing ‘On the Origin of Species’. During that time he made a lot of similar statements.
10 years… of barnacles.
yeah. I’d hate my life too.
The history of Darwin’s Barnacles is fascinating https://youtu.be/plYuvU2VZkE?si=Xq6rwC8FdhXFBDYD
At the time barnacles represented a major taxonomic mystery. They have a bizarre lifecycle that baffled scientists and figuring out what they were related to was baffling
Reminds me of the Onion video about the man who wastes his life studying anteaters: https://youtu.be/qXD9HnrNrvk?si=x3vd96q2BzMRFAnA
Where are you getting anything about a ship?
If you compare “rough weeks” with Darwin, I guess 99.99% of the population will discover they are extremely happy.
I am also very poorly my friends
I think I need subtitles for his handwriting
Can anyone read his handwriting?
I do like the abbreviated ‘‘very’’.
I can get But, everyday, everything
The backstory is that he wrote it in a letter to Charles Lyell, and also used the opportunity to rant about how much he hated orchids
I hear you, Chuck.
Name something more US than nickname Chuck for Charles
I feel you, Charles. I feel you!
