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O'Brian's is a roman fleuve recounting the 1790-1815 continuing adventures of his ship captain hero, Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy, and of Aubrey's best friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon, a naturalist and spy for the British.
Among the alternative candidates: a left-wing politician expected to get one-quarter of the vote and, more exotically, an "excitable surgeon known simply as Eneas, who calls for Brazil to build an atomic bomb" (in the NYT 's words).
In the context of the book, Wickedly Funny must be interpreted as meaning cynical, bitter, sarcastic, though when it comes to people like Phyllis Diller, who is more vulgarly tragic (or tragically vulgar) than funny, it must include self-deprecating comments (Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves; My plastic surgeon told me my face looked like a bouquet of elbows).
The Sunday Mirror, in the serialization of a book by Diana's "close confidante" Simone Simmons, said this week that she had mutilated her body with a fork, wanted to run off to South Africa with a heart surgeon named Hasnat Khan, and voted 250 times against the monarchy during a televised debate about its future by pressing the redial button on her mobile phone.
Minor was tried, found insane, and committed to the asylum at Cawthorne—hence the title of Winchester's book in Britain: The Surgeon of Cawthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Love of Words.