Madness has a way of making a man lonesome as well.
[He pours himself a double, then another double for Guy.]
Knew a man once who looked a great deal like yourself; based himself out of Africa. West coast. Slave trade. I don't think he cared about the loneliness.
[Jack is wrong about that; while Cutler Beckett had been glad to get away from his tyrannical father and brother and show them what he could truly accomplish in the world, he had very much missed his sister and wrote to her as much as he could before her death. Then he had felt himself very much alone in the world indeed. But he'd moved on from it, in the end, consoling himself with gains in power and position.]
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[He pours himself a double, then another double for Guy.]
Knew a man once who looked a great deal like yourself; based himself out of Africa. West coast. Slave trade. I don't think he cared about the loneliness.
[Jack is wrong about that; while Cutler Beckett had been glad to get away from his tyrannical father and brother and show them what he could truly accomplish in the world, he had very much missed his sister and wrote to her as much as he could before her death. Then he had felt himself very much alone in the world indeed. But he'd moved on from it, in the end, consoling himself with gains in power and position.]