Explore "Mars is my Destination" by Frank Belknap Long on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Unlike Jonathan Trilling, Commander Littlefield was the kind of man / who was what he was in an uncomplicated way. You didn't have to try to / analyze why he impressed you as he did, because it was all there on / display, right out in the open. He was big and robust looking, with / a granite-firm jaw and the kind of features that take a long time to / develop the lines of character that are etched into them, because a / man who has his emotions well under control in his youth will pass / into middle-age before you can tell from his expression just how much / maturity and strength resides in him.
There are bland-faced lads who seem to have no lines of character at / all in their countenances up to about the age of twenty-eight. But when / you hear them talk you change your mind very quickly about them, and / when they are forty-five the lines are all there, deeply-etched, and / the mystery is explained. Commander Littlefield was that kind of man.