![]() Keefer here was writing his stories, and you, Willie, were tearing up the playing fields of dear old Princeton, who was standing guard over this fat, dumb, happy country of ours, eh? Not us. I defended you, Steve, because I found the wrong man was on trial. Well, well, well! The officers of the Caine in happy celebration! I'm a lot drunker than you are, so it'll be a fair fight. If you wanna do anything about it, I'll be outside. ![]() Now here's to the real author of "The Caine Mutiny." Here's to you, Mr. But you, you'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any. ![]() Steve Maryk will always be remembered as a mutineer. And you managed to keep your skirts nice, and starched, and clean, even in the court martial. Only you didn't have one tenth the guts that he had.Įxcept I never fooled myself, Mr. Queeg was sick, he couldn't help himself. The Shakespeare whose testimony nearly sunk us all. If I left anything out, why, just ask me specific questions and I'll be glad to answer them.Īnd now we come to the man who should've stood trial. Naturally, I can only cover these things from memory. I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer. Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action. ![]() Maryk was the perfect officer, but not Captain Queeg. Maryk's incompetence and poor seamanship. But they encouraged the crew to go around scoffing at me, and spreading wild rumors about steaming in circles, and then old yellow-strain. Take the tow line, defective equipment, no more, no less. The crew wanted to walk around with their shirt tails hanging out, that's all right, let them. I tried to run the ship properly, by the book, but they fought me at every turn. He was no different from any other officer in the ward room, they were all disloyal. ![]()
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