I had a pretty different interpretation—that the dirty secrets were plenty conscious (he knew consciously they might be stealing a boat), instead he had unconscious mastery of a sort of people-modeling skill including self-modeling, which let him take self-aware actions in response to this dirty secret.
I had a pretty different interpretation—that the dirty secrets were plenty conscious (he knew consciously they might be stealing a boat), instead he had unconscious mastery of a sort of people-modeling skill including self-modeling, which let him take self-aware actions in response to this dirty secret.