The only thing

I have brought out from a day of busyness, some of it crazy, some of it productive, some of it completing things only to discover that I have to do them again because some bastard changed the parameters without telling any one, is that the action, the burning of the French warship L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile, that produced the painting below


was also the inspiration for the much-bawdlerized poem Casabianca, in which

The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;