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Treasure Island
1950 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Byron Haskin
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
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For an example of comic lettering 'in extremis', look at Charles Crumb (who was the big brother of the famous underground comic artist Robert Crumb). He obsessively drew the story of Treasure Island with a particular emphasis on long conversations between how Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins. Charles Crumb clearly had some kind of psychosis, whereby the text boxes in his comics became larger and larger eventually pushing out the images altogether. The text itself became nothing more than an impression of text (Graphomania?).
Hard to find good examples... a single example at the near bottom of the page here: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/crumb_charles.htm
A much later example here: https://blog.mumblelard.com/post/88300090/graphomania-or-cipher-gradually-charles-crumbs
Also check out the documentary on the three Crumb brothers.
I recall the first film opening with bars of a song which also features prominently in the ride.
Apparently the song itself was written for the rides in 1967 [1] and I assume is based off even older pirate shanties. Certainly reminds me of songs from the book Treasure Island (1883).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_Ho_(A_Pirate%27s_Life_for_Me)
The pirate voice is attributed to the 1950s film Treasure Island. Pirates didn't have a particular voice.
Stevenson's Treasure Island has a one-legged West Country pirate with a parrot on his shoulder - Long John Silver.
The parrot was taken from Robinson Crusoe. The Arrr apparently dates from the 1930s movie versions. Stevenson wrote: "Treasure Island came out of Kingsley's At Last, where I got the Dead Man's Chest—and that was the seed—and out of the great Captain Johnson's History of the Notorious Pirates." And Long John Silver was apparently based on his friend W.E. Henley, who had a leg amputated at the knee due to TB. Incidentally, after Lister (the pioneer of modern antiseptic surgery) saved his other foot, Henley wrote the famous poem Invictus, which ends with the lines -
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Question 3 was the most interesting but data on parsing remarkably incomplete. As far as I can tell, we have only lists of possible ways to break down the data without any explanation of how or why one possible way is preferred to another.
Case in point (1):How it decides to treat "Treasure Island" as a proper noun. We see only "modifies(Treasure, Island)" -- indicating that it treats treasure and adjective modifying island, then suddenly in the semantic assumption phase they are treated as a compound.
Case in point (2). We are given:
island(Treasure Island)
location(Treasure Island)
resort(Treasure Island)
book(Treasure Island)
movie(Treasure Island)
I assume what he is giving us is method names written in Java with "Treasure Island" as the single argument that return a value indicating the likelihood that "Treasure Island" is what the method name refers to. This is extraordinarily interesting. However, it is not at all clear which methods are chosen and why, if they are run in some sort of sequence or simultaneously, etc .
Case in point (3) : "Builds different semantic queries based on phrases, keywords and semantic assumptions." This is very vague but indicates that Watson generate a set of queries which it runs against its own internal search engine ranking answers presumably based on the quality of the initial search and the confidence of the answer. Would be very very cool to have an example.
All in all, wets the appetite but leaves one wishing for more hearty fare (or a job at IBM!).
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson.
Alice in Wonderland iff still young enough not to think girls are gross. Otherwise you must sneak up on him with the poetry, then introduce the book. (I've had success with reciting 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Walrus and the Carpenter.')
Learn 'If,' by Kipling, by heart. Then teach it slowly and patiently.
As an aside, quite a lot of Kipling is truly excellently boy friendly.
The Proverbs of Solomon, et al. Found in any Bible or Talmud. Bears repeated reading, as most eastern 'wisdom' literature does (The Book of Five Rings, The Art of War, etc.).
While we're at, why not the Narnia books? I loved them, and I'd no idea the Lion was apparently Jesus until I was nine or so.
But by far do not DO NOT forget Michel Ende's marvelous 'The Neverending Story.'
If you're only familiar with it from a movie, you've missed the best part, when the boy 'Bastian must take up arms and become the adventurer he has read about and loved.