Major F. Jack Collins
My blogs
| Industry | Military |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Aethernaut |
| Introduction | A soldier, a scholar, gentleman and explorer, I am currently acting as an emissary of the United States Secret Service under President Grant to Her Majesty Queen Victoria's 3rd Royal Aether Expeditionary Fleet, currently in orbit about Venus. |
| Interests | Steamships, Airships, Aether Exploration, Military History, Natural Philosophy, Homer's Works, Herodotus, Tea |
| Favorite movies | Is that what they're calling them these days? How crude. Well I suppose my favorite - as is right and proper for a gentleman - would be the waltz, but some folk dances can be quite interesting.... |
| Favorite music | John Philip Sousa,Schubert's 8th |
| Favorite books | The Iliad, The Odyssey, Herotodus' Histories, The Gentleman's Book of Etiquette |
The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes?
I was quite astonished, since the dropped axe-blade of one of the Royal Venusian Guardsman had severed the toes of my boots quite cleanly. We were exploring the smaller of Mars' two moons in a small scout ship, and it was deathly cold. So cold, in fact that I couldn't feel my toes. Lucky for me they had curled back in my socks for warmth, else I would have had such a limp!