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PART ONE: The Young Lieutenant Chapter 1 ● “Quiet, moody, a man of few words” (pg 3) - about Rooke ● “He had no memories other than of being an outsider.” (pg 3) -About Rooke ● “Could not become interested in the multiplication tables” (pg 4) - About Rooke ● “While the others chanted through them, impatient for the morning break, he was looking under the desk at the notebook in which he was collecting his special numbers, the ones that could not be divided by any number but themselves and one” (pg 4) - difference between the others and Rooke at the dame school in Portsmouth ● “Rooke felt the hairs on his head standing up with the heat of his blush. Whether it was because he was stupid or clever, it added up to the same thing: the misery of being out of step with the world” (pg 5) - about Rooke. ● “The first night there he lay rigid in the dark, too shocked to cry.” (pg 6) -About Rooke at Naval Academy ● “In the world of Church Street, Benjamin Rooke was a man of education and standing, a father to be proud of. At the Portsmouth Naval Academy a mile away, he was an embarrassment.” (pg 6) ● “His attic in Church Street wrapped its corners and angles around him, the shape of his own odd self. At the Academy, the cold space of the bleak dormitory sucked out his spirit and left a shell behind.” (pg 6) ● “A journey between one world and another.” (pg 7) -About home and Naval Academy ● “His mother and father were so proud, so warm with pleasure that their clever son had been singled out, that he could not tell them how he felt.” (pg 7) - About Rooke ● “Anne held his hand with both hers, pulling at him with all her child’s weight and crying for him to stay. She was not yet five, but somehow knew he longed to remain anchored in the hallway.” (pg 7) - about Anne and Rooke’s relationship ● “Rooke learned at last that true cleverness was to hide such thoughts. They became a kind of shame, a secret thing to be indulged only in private.” (pg 7) ● “Conversation was a problem he could not solve. If no answer seemed necessary to a remark, he said nothing” (pg 7) -About Rooke ● “He yearned to be a more ordinary sort of good fellow, but was helpless to be other than he was.” (pg 8) - Rooke. ● “Lancelot Percival lay in wait for Rooke and usually managed to give him a punch in passing, or spill ink on his precious linen shirt.” (pg 9) - Rooke being bullied by others ● “The other boys watched without expression, as if it were normal, like killing a fly.” (pgt 9) -About Lancelot Percival bullying Rooke
● “He became his own question and his own answer.” (pg 10) -About Rooke conversing with himself ● “At the Academy his only consolations were found within the pages of books. Euclid seemed an old friend (pg 10) -About Rooke ● “Things that equal the same thing also equal another. The whole is greater than the part” (pg 10) ● “A door opened in a world that had seemed nothing but wall.” (pg 11) -Rooke after playing the organ in the chapel ● “He almost wept with gratitude that the world could offer such a glory of sound.” (pg 12) -About Rooke ● “He listened as if he had as many ears as fingertips, and, like a blind man, could feel textures that were barely there.” (pg 12) - Rooke ● “A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.” (pg 13) ● “He had no evidence, but doggedly believed that there would one day be a place, somewhere in the world, for the person he was” (pg 15) - Rooke Chapter 2 ● “Dr Vickery was not troubled by the boy’s awkwardness” (pg 17) ● “He was at Greenwich for two weeks and felt, for the first time in his life, that he was in the right place.” (pg 17) -About Rooke ● “She was the one person in the world with whom he had never needed to pretend to be someone else.” (pg 20) -About Rooke to Anne ● “So clever he was stupid.” (pg 21) -About Daniel ● “Silk was disliked by no one: he was cordial, amusing and easy, always in the right place with just the right words.” (pg 22) -About Talbot Silk ● “War was no more than an opportunity on the way to the creation of Captain Silk” (pg 22) - Silk’s ambition and comparison to Rooke ● “With Silk beside him as a model of how it was done, Rooke worked at inventing an acceptable version of himself for use...” (pg 229 - comparison of Rooke and Silk ● “He was still a quiet fellow who liked to hang back in the shadows.” (pg 22) - About Rooke ● “At the academy that would have opened him to mockery, but on board Resolution it seemed nothing worse than remarkable” (pg 22) - Rooke’s talents are appreciated, finds solace ● “Rooke supposed that he should have known that a ship was a floating observatory, but it came as an unexpected gift.” (pg 23) ● “On board Resolution his talents seemed at last to have found a home.” (pg 24) -About Rooke ● “He paused to listen, hearing a language like nothing he had ever heard before...” (pg 24) - About Rooke seeing black people in Antigua. Initial attitudes towards Indigenous.
● “Now there was nothing, only this pain in his head and his heart, which had seen into the vile entrails of life and smelled the evil there.” (pg 34) -About Rooke ● “They had both watched Private Truby wondering why he could not get up, and that had forged a bond deeper than mere good fellowship.” (pg 36) - Rooke and Silk Chapter 4 ● “Now he did not trust that machine. He did not think he ever would again. Life might promise, but he knew now that while it gave it also took.” (pg 39) - About Rooke ● “The instinct to rework an event, so that the telling became almost more real than the thing itself -- that had been born in Silk the way the pleasures of manipulating numbers had been born in Rooke.” (pg 40) ● “I will not take no for an answer, Silk wrote” (pg 40) ● “He could smell in its fabric the sweat of his terror.” (pg 41) -About Rooke and his soldier uniform ● “Breathed deep to accustom his nose to being a soldier again.” (pg 41) -About Rooke
PART TWO: The Astronomer Chapter 1 ● “But Barton and Gardiner did not cling jealousy to theirs, as Rooke had seen navigators do on Resolution, as if the numbers on a piece of brass were a measure of manhood.” (pg 46) ● “It was foreign to Rooke, the idea of taking the real world as nothing more than raw material. His gift lay in measuring, calculating, deducing.” (pg 47) ● “Silk’s was to cut and embellish until a pebble was transformed into a gem” (pg 47) ● “Rooke was the lowliest sort of officer, a man of no importance. But during those few minutes in the cabin, rank was nothing. For that time, the astronomer Rooke was the equal of the commodore himself.” (pg 50) ● “Rooke saw men running along the shore, shaking spears. He could hear them on the wind calling the same word over and over: Warra! Warra!.” (pg 51) ● “Rooke heard a series of small sounds that he knew were made by muskets being put up to shoulders.” (pg 52) - first encounter with Indigenous Australians. Seeing the five native men stepping out of the bushes. ● “They were strange and ordinary at once: men, like himself in essence...” (pg 52) - about the natives ● “Mister Darkie” (pg 53) what Weymark calls the native men
● “Trinkets” (pg 53) - the trinkets are intended to convey that the settlers come in peace, though the natives’ reaction suggests that this isn’t being effectively communicated. ● “It was like tossing a stone into a bush and wondering what bird would fly out.” (pg 54) - lack of communication results in uncertainty and cause of conflict. ● “He loaded his pistol, aimed from a short distance, cocked the hammer and fired.” (pg 54) - Weymark firing gun. ● “Then they lost interest. The man dropped the looking-glass on the sand, as casually as a boy in Portsmouth might let go the core of an apple.” (pg 54) ● “The black men were not entertained. They frowned and spoke to each other urgently.” (pg 55) ● “The natives did not like the surgeon’s music any more than they had enjoyed his performance with the pistol” (pg 56) Chapter 2 ● “Rooke adopted the regular stance for the salute, musket against his shoulder, left foot forward.” (pg 60) ● “As he pulled his finger back against the trigger and braced himself for the noise, he had a moment’s nausea.” (pg 60) ● “The brand-new governor of New South Wales had been granted the power of life and death over his subjects.” (pg 61) - About Governor Gilbert ● “The natives are on all occasions to be treated with amity and kindness.” (pg 61) -Governor Gilbert ● “It is of the utmost importance to open friendly intercouse with them. Without [the native’s] cooperation, the progress and even the existence of this colony will be threatened.” (pg 62) -Governor Gilbert to the prisoners about the natives ● “The colony needed an astronomer but it might also need a linguist.” (pg 62) ● “A man who had no wish to play the part of prison guard.” (pg 63) -About Rooke ● “Seen to be too busy with the celestial bodies for any terrestrial duty.” (pg 63) -About Rooke ● “Major Wyatt referred to it as the parade ground, although as yet it was nothing more than a slope of grey dirt bristling with stumps.” (pg 64) ● “He saw that for Silk, as for himself, New South Wales was not simply four years of full pay and the chance of advancement, and that evading the more unsavoury duties of their profession was not the only imperative. For Silk, as for himself, the place promised other riches. New South Wales was part of a man’s destiny.” (pg 66) -About Rooke Chapter 3 ● “For an instant he felt it: just how far he was from home.” (pg 68) -About Rooke ● “The person he was among those people -- Second Lieutenant Rooke, good with numbers although inclined to be awkward with people -- was someone he inhabited like a stiff suit of clothes.” (pg 69) -About Rooke
● “There is nowhere in the world that I would rather be.” (pg 97) - Rooke ● “When they understand peaceable intentions they will approach” (pg 98) - Willstead - The natives do not come face to face with the British colonists because of their fear of the unfamiliar. Upon the first encounter, miscommunication occurred and this feared the natives so without effective communication, the natives will not approach. ● “The buggers stoned me!” (pg 100) - Brugden ● “He struck Rooke as a man with a sharp assessment of where his own interests lay.” (pg 100) -About Brugden ● “I let off the gun and then I ran like blazes, I had the fear of God in me.” (pg 101) - Brugden ● “The survival of this settlement, and of all its members, depends in large degree on maintaining cordial relations with the natives.” (pg 101) -Governor Gilbert to Brugden - warning again. ● “Fear was what you felt when your actions could make a difference to what was about to happen.” (pg 103) ● “Eight men alone in this immensity of unknown could only wait and hope.” (pg 103) ● “Brugden’s eye was a regal shade of purple, and he had gone silent and grim. It was more than the pain... man had been humiliated and would not forget it.” (pg 104)
Chapter 6 ● “Confidence was one word for the governor’s enthusiasm, Rooke thought. Another might be delusion. But the governor was paid to be optimistic. His fifteen hundred pounds a year would cease if the settlement were abandoned. Fifteen hundred pounds bought a great deal of confidence.” (pg 106) ● “They would discover that we have nothing but good will towards them...” (pg 108) - governor - feeling of superiority over natives. ● “With every tree cut down, every yard of ground dug and planted, his need became more urgent..” (pg 108) ● “No such understanding was possible without language to convey it, and persons whom the news could be delivered. And yet it seemed that the silence might continue indefinitely.” (pg 108) ● “the governor would not have welcomed warfare, but Rooke thought he would have understood it. War was a species of conversation. But this silence was neither war nor peace.” (pg 108) ● The governor wants to speak to the natives, and they will not come near and so he came up with a way to settle this → “to seize one or two by force” (pg 110)
● → “teach them English, learn their tongue. Treat them well, so they would tell the others.” (pg 110) ● “By God you should have heard them crying out, it would break your heart.” (pg 111) ● “They may be savages, we call them savages. But their feelings are no different from ours.” (pg 111) -Gardiner to Rooke about the natives ● “You did your duty, that was all” (pg 111) - Rooke only values duty at this point, thinks it’s important to follow since it had to be done or else punishments occur ● “He had not known how much he had come to dislike the governor, that secretive sour man.” (pg 112) -About Rooke to Gardiner ● “The natives were brought in. Never mind that they were kidnapped. Violently. Against their will.” (pg 112) - Gardiner ● “It was by far the most unpleasant service I ever was ordered to execute.” (pg 112) -Gardiner to Rooke ● “Have I ever been given an order that would shake me, shame me?” (pg 112) - Rooke ● “I wish to god I had not done it! He should not have given the order, but I wish to God I had not obeyed.” (pg 113) - Gardiner ● “What would I have done in the same place?” (pg 113) Chapter 7 ● “Being here was not an adventure for him, Rooke thought. It was an affront to his sense of himself.” (pg 115) -About the captured native ● “he saw.. same eagerness to enter the unknown, to be amazed by different.” (pg 116) - Rooke ● “These two men of New South Wales carried themselves proudly erect, yielding to no one.” (pg 116) -About the captured natives ● “Isolation had saved them from becoming like those uprooted Africans he had seen in English Harbour, expressionless black cogs in the machine of empire.” (pg 116) -About the natives in reference to the African slaves ● “His eyes met Boinbar’s and he felt a bubble of laughter in his throat. He saw his own excitement reflected on the other man’s face, the same eagerness to enter the unknown, to be amazed by difference.” (pg 116) -About Rooke ● “Rooke had wanted solitude, had schemed to be cut off from the settlement. He had congratulated himself on achieving it. But like Midas, he had his riches and was the poorer for them. His isolation was robbing him of the chance to stand beside Silk and exchange words with the native men.” (pg 117) ● “It was a shallow ruse, but who knew how long it would be before he could see more of those new planets Boinbar and Warungin?” (pg 118) -About Rooke ● “My intimacy with the native men, I have to tell you, Rooke, is of the most inestimable value for my little narrative. The whole story is excessively
shaped smooth phrases. His own was to enter that strangeness and lose himself in it.” (pg 139) -About Rooke Chapter 2 ● “He was doing a job of work, teaching a word to a man who could not hear it.” (pg 141) -About Warungin to Rooke ● “Berewal-gal” (the great-distance-off tribe) - what Warungin teaches Rooke and Rooke gets it (pg 143) ● “None of the mysterious belongings or impressive skills of the white men -- the ships, the muskets that could split a shield, the telescopes, the gold braid -
- gave them any special standing. They were just one more tribe.” (pg 143) ● “Not just the words were opaque, even the cadence was unlike any language he had heard. Every phase began emphatically and faded away. Trying to hear its form was like trying to take hold of running water.” (pg 144) ● “He thought he saw in her the same impulses he was feeling himself: excitement tempered by wariness, the desire to explore held in check by the fear of making a wrong move.” (pg 147) -About Rooke and the native girl ● “It was like being taken by the hand and helped step by step in the dark.” (pg
- -About the native girl helping Rooke ● “But language was more than a list of words, more than a collection of fragments all jumbled together like a box of nuts and bolts.” (pg 152) ● “Language was a machine. To make it work, each part had to be understood in relation to all the other parts.” (pg 152) ● “It required someone who could dismantle the machine, see how it worked, and put it to use..” (pg 152) ● “And everything in his life had been leading here. He saw it as clearly as a map, the map of his life and his character. He had been born with the urge to understand how things worked.” (pg 152) - About Rooke ● “His temperament suited him to the task. Those qualities that made him such a diffident social being were the very ones that equipped him perfectly for listening.” (pg 153) -About Rooke ● “He knew, with as much certainty as he knew his own name, that this would be his proper work in New South Wales: to acquire the native language.” (pg
- -About Rooke ● “A journey not simply into the language of a race of people hitherto unknown, but into the cosmos they inhabited: the ways they organised their society and the gods they worshipped, their thoughts and hopes, their fears and passions. After such a leap of learning, the world would no longer be the same.” (pg
- ● “Words were all very well, but with nothing more than words one was forever a child, piping out the names of things. Grammar was the gearing that made them useful.” (pg 155) ● “He would be setting off to meet the unknown with only his ears, his pen and these little notebooks.” (pg 156) -About Rooke and the native language Chapter 3
● “He had planned to start his vocabulary with Parts of the Human Body. He pointed at his head and made a questioning face.” (pg 161) ● “How odd it was that he should finally learn how to play the fool, and become the child he had never been in his childhood, in the company of these three children with whom he shared hardly a word.” (pg 162) -About Rooke ● “What an astonishing thing, that her praise filled his heart.” (pg 165) -About Rooke from Tagaran’s praise Chapter 4 ● “Rank: in a remote way he knew it mattered, but now it seemed bloodless and irrelevant.” (pg 168) -About Rooke ● “New South Wales was the possession of King George the Third. The commission he had given his governor awarded James Gilbert sovereignty over every man black or white, every object great or small, and every relationship of whatever sort that might take place in his kingdom.” (pg 170) ● “He knew that this paradise, like any other, was finite.” (pg 171) -About Rooke learning the native language Chapter 5 ● “He enjoyed the company of the children, but it was with Tagaran that he had conversation.” (pg 175) -About Rooke ● “Rooke had seen that there were people with a power of personality that gave them effortless authority. It was not to do with rank or position: the governor lacked it. Rooke did not possess it either, he knew that about himself, but Silk had it, and so did Gardiner.” (pg 175) ● “[Tagaran] gave him a name, kamara. It meant my friend.” (pg 175) ● “Language went in both directions. Without the benefit of notebooks or pencils repaired with string, the natives not only knew many words of English, but had already made them part of their own tongue, altering them as their grammar required.” (pg 177) ● “I kaddianed it” (pg 177) - Rooke ● “A boundary was being crossed and erased. Like ink in water, one language was melting into another.” (pg 178) -About discovering that Rooke was not simply learning another language but re-making his own ● “He must be careful, he told himself. The rapport between them was easy, but he must not make assumptions. There was too much to lose, and not just the glory of being the first to speak the native tongue.” (pg 183) -About Rooke and his friendship with Tagaran ● “He sipped his own cup of warraburra” (pg 184) ● Rooke’s communication with Tagaran becomes “not just the words and not just the meaning, but the way in which two people had found common ground and begun to discover the true name of things” (pg 186). ● “What had passed between Tagaran and himself had gone far beyond vocabulary or grammatical forms. It was the heart of talking; not just the words and not just the meaning...” (pg 186)
Chapter 7 ● “He must tell, otherwise what up till now had been simply private would take on the dangerous power of a secret.” (pg 201) ● “Rooke told himself that his unhappiness at Silk reading his notes was a remnant of all the other idiosyncrasies which he had to conquer. He would have to accept that privacy was a luxury his life did not offer.” (pg 203) ● “Hoping to have a chapter on the language in my narrative” (pg 203) - All that Silk cares about ● “Occurs to me that we might be able to enter into a partnership, you and I” (pg 205) - Silk ● “Add your vocabularies and your grammatical forms to my own journal, with full credit to you..” (pg 205) - Silk ● “How different Silk was from himself, Rooke thought. Silk could imagine no use for words other than reaching an audience.” (pg 204) ● “Now he saw how far he had travelled from the world he once shared with Silk. Tagaran seemed to have led the way down some other road altogether.” (pg 204) -About Rooke ● “Those two notebooks recorded the best of his life. Perhaps he would be obliged to share them, but they would never be a matter of profit.” (pg 206) - About Rooke ● “”That the white people think their skin superior...” The white people. He was speaking as if he were not one of them.” (pg 206) -About Rooke ● “Tagaran was not one of any of them. She was herself, unique in every particle.” (pg 209) ● “He had drifted along without time or space or consequence.” (pg 209) -About Rooke ● Silk misunderstands what Rooke wrote in his notebook about Tagaran “standing by the fire naked”. Takes it as the wrong thing that “there is no need to explain. We are both men of the world.” (pg 209) Chapter 8 ● “A week had passed since his meeting with Silk, but something in Rooke was still reverberating, a disturbance in the air, a tremor in his sense of himself.” (pg 211) ● “But there was a heavy place inside him, where the event was sitting undigested like a piece of bad food” (pg 214) ● “For the first time, he and Tagaran were on the same side of the mirror of language, simply speaking to each other. Understanding went in both directions. Once two people shared language, they could no longer use it to hide.” (pg 215) -About Rooke ● “He could imagine the scene, but not himself in it” (pg 215) - Rooke could imagine himself in the scene of speaking up to the captain on the Ship Charlotte confronting the man who had beaten Tugear saying “I wish you to discover and punish him.”
● “What Tagaran had wanted was possible. He tried it in his mind again: going out to Charlotte, knocking on the door of the captain’s cabin...” (pg 217) ● “Like it or not, he was Berewalgal. He wore the red coat. He carried the musket when he was told to. He stood by while a man was flogged. He would not confront a white man who had beaten his friends.” (pg 218) -About Rooke ● “A world existed here in his hut, a world he shared with Taragan and the others. It was on another orbit altogether from the one he shared with his own kind.” (pg 218) ● “But a man could not travel along two different paths. Tagaran knew that. Now he knew it too” (pg 218) ● “What he had shared with Tagaran was the greatest delight he had ever known. But bound up with the delight, inseparable from it, was a universe of impossibility.” (pg 218) Chapter 9 ● “For the moment he was nothing more than a conduit for the knowledge she wanted.” (pg 222) -About Rooke to Taragan ● “There was something a little odd, a little unsettling, about the emptiness of the place.” (pg 223) ● “He was sickened by it: this innocent wanting to play at death.” (pg 224) - About Rooke to Taragan ● “He did not want her to learn that language.” (pg 224) - Rooke about Tagaran ● “He had begun by thinking of Taragan as a resource. He thought he had appointed her his teacher. He had been made too confident by his own ambition. Brutally, he made himself face the last thought: he had been flattered by her friendship. Now, to put it plain, it seemed that he was the one who had been used.” (pg 227) -About Rooke ● “The hurt that was choking him was that she had not enjoyed his company, after all. She had valued him only for what he could give her.” (pg 227) -About Rooke and Taragan ● “The boundary between his world and Taragan’s.” (pg 228) -About Rooke ● “In New South Wales, he could not see how things were connected to any larger meaning. It gave life here an oddly disjointed and tiring aspect, like moving through the world blind.” (pg 229) ● “Had dreamed of beginning all over again, of a place where things could start from zero, not haunted by all those earlier failures.” (pg 230) -About Rooke ● “How it was to be lonely among your own people.” (pg 230) -About Rooke ● “All his life he had liked his own company better than anyone else’s.” (pg 230) -About Rooke ● “It was that he was no longer sufficient to himself. There was one human, of all the humans on this spinning globe, whose company he longed for. That was an education for a man who thought he knew most things.” (pg 231) - About Rooke ● “Shabby and insignificant, they were the most precious things he had ever owned.” (pg 231) -About Rooke and the notebooks
Chapter 3 ● “They had made themselves comfortable.” (pg 260) -About the settlers ● “It is no part of our intention to betray trust, only to punish.” (pg 266) -Silk ● “Silk would mask the failure of the expedition with an amusing ruefulness and self-deprecation.” (pg 270) Chapter 4 ● “Silk’s face, half visible in the firelight, and a tone in his voice, that sent a chill into Rooke” ● “The governor’s argument was that is was necessary to act harshly once, in order not to have to act harshly again. The punishment inflicted on a few would be an act of mercy to all the others.” (pg 274) -Silk to Rooke ● “The heads of the slain were to be brought back” (pg 274) - Silk ● “A mass without a name.” (pg 278) -About Rooke ● “Everything is part every other thing now and forever” (pg 279) ● “He had persuaded himself that, as long as the expedition failed, there was no harm in being part of it.” (pg 279) -About Rooke ● “That Daniel Rooke seemed to have been replaced, syllable by syllable, by some other man.” ● “What he could see now was that he was exactly as guilty as the governor and as Silk. Like them, he had allowed self-interest to blind him.” (pg 279) - About Rooke ● “If you were part of such an act, you were part of its wrong.” (pg 280) ● “If you were part of that machine, you were part of its evil.” (pg 280) ● “They had been nothing more than naked strangers.” (pg 280) ● “He had had a musket ready loaded in his hands, primed to use it if ordered.” (pg 280) ● “He knew those naked people now. He did not understand them, but he could no longer think of them as strangers.” (pg 280) -About Rooke ● “He could not attach a name to what he felt for her. But she had shown him the existence of the man he could be.” (pg 281) -About Taragan to Rooke ● “That man was not just a lieutenant in His Majesty’s service. That man knew how to sit as well as act, how to listen as well as speak, and how to feel as well as think. He had discovered truths, powerful in spite of having no names, about two people and what they might share.” (pg 281) ● “To remain with the expedition was to turn his back on the man he had become. But to refuse any further part in it would be to step into the void.” (pg 281) -About Rooke ● “Some things went too deep for forgetting.” (pg 281) ● “It was not thought, not logic, not calculation. It was just an impulse of the body, like breathing or blinking: a reflex that was beyond reason.” (pg 282) - About Rooke not wanting to go on with the expedition ● “It was a wicked plan. am sorry to have been persuaded to comply with the order. I would not for any reason ever again obey a similar order” - Rooke ● “I cannot be part of this,” he said aloud (pg 282) - Rooke
● “Your orders were a most gravely wrong thing.” (pg 285) -Rooke to the Governor ● “The intention of evil was there which is all that God sees when he looks into our hearts” (pg 285) - Rooke ● “God was just a way for a man to interrogate his own heart.” (pg 286) PART FIVE: Antigua, 1836 Chapter 1 ● “Almost fifty years later the earth still turned and the stars still burned, and Daniel Rooke still looked up and watched them” ● “He went straight from the court to offer himself to another cause” - The cause was at the place he first came to, Antigua - where he witnessed a young lieutenant of the marines hanged for disobeying. ● “He had learned that the naked eye could see things a telescope could not.” (pg 291) -About Rooke ● “The exquisite instruments of astronomy could add new stars to the sum of the world’s knowledge, but it took a soul to wonder at the beauty of those already discovered.” (pg 291) ● “He had given his life for [the slaves]” ● “[Rooke] bought as many [slaves] as [he] could” ● “Bought and freed. how they hated him for that” - the other auction buyers hated Rooke and so they “bid the price up and up to ruin him faster” ● “It was enough for him to know they were there” - about the notebooks ● “The notebooks would tell the story of a friendship like no other.” (pg 298) Chapter 2 ● “Tagaran was invisible now, but she was a part of everything he could see, like the faintest, most distant star, sending its steady light out towards him across space.” (pg 302)
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