Today’s morning name: the Gilbert & Sullivan character Dick Deadeye (from H.M.S. Pinafore): the rough and ugly able seaman, the grim realist of the Pinafore‘s crew. In my consciousness through some connection from my posting on Iolanthe yesterday, I suppose. We don’t really get Dick Deadeye’s backstory in the plot of the opera, but the … Continue reading Dick Deadeye in the morning