On Feb 14, 10:01=A0am, Esa Perkio <eper...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> pullo <pullo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> : =A0The scene was some urgent space battle where the leader[captain]
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> : make decisions which he does quickly.
> :
> : =A0He thinks to himself or the narrator supplies the logic: 'In a
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> : situation the most im****tant thing is to make decisions quickly. If in
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> : end they turn out to be the right ones, so much the better.'
>
> There's a scene like that (with said internal dialogue) in either
> Ringworld or Ringworld Engineers, with Louis Wu acting far more certain
> than he is. I think somebody else goes along happily and trustingly and
> Chmee looks sceptical, but bows to the necessity of doing something.
>
> Not space combat, though.
I think I recall the scene, from the original Ringworld.
(possible spoilers follow)
Near the beginning, they crashland near the center of the
ringworld, about equidistant from both rims. They assume
that any remaining civilisation to be found will be at the
rims, and that they need to start to long trek to get to
one. But which one?
Speaker-to-Animals (who has the only real weapon, and
so is leader??) states that a particular rim is nearer, and
they all set out for it. Louis has an internal monolog in
which he remembers that a sign of leader****p is to make
decisions firmly, even on ambiguous data.
PT
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