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[Bush, unimaginative and stolid, was very much the heart of the Royal Navy-- not a poet or a philosopher or a man who was overburdened with sympathy for strangers.
He is not cruel or heartless-- he can sympathize with men like him in situations like his. But to imagine someone else facing a new situation-- to imagine himself to be other than what he was-- is not a thing he has ever been very capabable of.
And now he has been behind the eyes of Others. Not like him, yet still unmistakably thinking and being and existing, and he is shaken and his step-thump stride through the ship is subdued. He does not always watch his way, and he often goes to the CES, hoping for sight of the sea.]
[Bush, unimaginative and stolid, was very much the heart of the Royal Navy-- not a poet or a philosopher or a man who was overburdened with sympathy for strangers.
He is not cruel or heartless-- he can sympathize with men like him in situations like his. But to imagine someone else facing a new situation-- to imagine himself to be other than what he was-- is not a thing he has ever been very capabable of.
And now he has been behind the eyes of Others. Not like him, yet still unmistakably thinking and being and existing, and he is shaken and his step-thump stride through the ship is subdued. He does not always watch his way, and he often goes to the CES, hoping for sight of the sea.]
