#callback to my era of being stoned depressed and obsessively watching black sails

[knifeeater]

What Silver tried to do was give Flints monstrous story a meaning retrospectively. All the hardship and loss would have happened to lead him to his Odyssean ending. But we know that Silver is truly Odysseus when he exclaims 'i am no one' and that Odysseus is a character that stays in our stories as the man who could never rest, always roaming across the sea, an idea of home driving him through tempest and godly wrath. And home is not a place in this haunted tale. Silver proved this with his story about Thomas as the soil and thus spoke into the world this fact. That he would always search for something which he could only find in his old stories now memories and in a haunted cache of pearls and gold. So he returns to the beginning of the story.