My job. Let me show you it.

[desperance]

Taking a leaf from matociquala, 'cos she has treesful:

#1: Han didn't know, but he could guess what thoughts might be going through the captain's mind:

#2: Han could guess what thoughts were going through the captain's mind:

#3: Han could guess what lay in the captain's mind:

It's not big and it's not clever, and I do kind of enjoy the process, engaging with a text at this level. Just, that's one sentence. Not even a full sentence. There's an awful lot of sentences in this book. I've worked my way through a hundred pages, and I have five hundred more to go.

Of your charity, remember me...

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I'm down to a mere 50pp or so (but they're horrid). Will be thinking of you.

[jeremy-m.livejournal.com]

#4: And lo, those thoughts which lay, coiled serpentine, in the deep frosted caverns of the captain's mind, were to Han recondite mysteries as of the endarkened haze of half glimpsed glory long since veiled in the secret dawn of a world forever gone beyond that land where no bird sings, yet even ... and so on.

But perhaps five hundred pages of that would be more than enough.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hey, you read my first draft...!

[julesjones]

Well, you do have a reputation to maintain...

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I feel your pain.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Also, just tell me you're not writing Star Wars slash. I don't care if you *are.* Just tell me you're not anyway.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Not. Not not not. Nom nom nom. No...!

PS

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Chinese Han, not Solo Han...

Re: PS

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

PHEW.

Re: PS

[handworn.livejournal.com]

How very dynastic.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

*Offers virtual banana bread*

[handworn.livejournal.com]

The captain was a good one, and like all good captains was intensely practical. Thousands of decisions, millenia of responsibility, had shaped the captain's mind, like bonsai growing around bindings. The result was that in her mind the estimation of consequence followed as closely and unthinkingly upon new knowledge as the fluid finger-shift of a master violinist. Han could estimate consequence as well as most people, and so could guess the first of the captain's thoughts, but past that, in the certain maze of subconsequence, probability and priority, Han could not follow.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Is very, very true. That captain has secrets to which Han will never be privy.

Happily, Han is about to develop strata of his own...

(Also, I love that sequence "subconsequence, probability and priority". Does the captain play chess, d'you suppose? Or Go, perhaps...?)

[handworn.livejournal.com]

The captain might play chess. Kirk and Spock do a lot in ST. (I never played Go, so I DK about that.) On the other hand, it might seem a bit like a busman's holiday. Depends, I think, on how natural the thinking ahead comes to the captain. That is, it's a captain's skill which gets developed either way, but it also seems an innate talent or predilection.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I played Go as a teenager, as a refugee-from-chess; only then I hit the same point where I had to cut and run from Go too (there's a tipping-point, where either you have to take it v seriously, read the books, enter the competitions, all of that, or else you have to give it up. That's what I found, anyway, with both). But Go is like a distillation of chess: much simpler - no moves! - and much more complex in strategy, because it's all about placement, and you can go anywhere...