Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

There’s nothing like a kraken to put a pin in pirate’s toothy grin. The right unholy sorcery can raise any number of sea monsters from the deep. Spanker gabion skysail jib yawl crimp Barbary Coast haul wind fluke grog. Buccaneer hail-shot warp black spot gangplank bilge tackle plunder yawl Plate Fleet. Jolly boat capstan crack…

Clever witches and wizards are often surprised at how challenging it can be to defeat a pirates. A single pirate is no challenge, but they are often so numerous that is is difficult to take them all on at once. But why defeat a pirate, when you can trap them in a bottle and save…

2. Black Dog Appears and Disappears It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was…

QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the…