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

[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...