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inkatesbush · 5 days

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“So there’s another Pym for you, Jack, and you had better add him to my file even if he is neither admirable nor, I suspect, comprehensible to you, though Poppy knew him inside out from the first day. He’s the Pym who can’t rest ‘till he’s touched the love in people, then can’t rest ‘till he’s hacked his way out of it, the more drastically the better. The Pym who does nothing cynically, nothing without conviction. Who sets events in motion in order to become their victim, which he calls decision, and ties himself into pointless relationships, which he calls loyalty. Then waits for the next event to get him out of the last one, which he calls destiny.”

—A Perfect Spy, John Le Carré

#I think i hauve prose covid #words #le carre

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

- John le Carré (David Cornwell)

#le carre #john le carre #david cornwell #author #writer #literature #espionage #spy #betrayal #love #english #british #icon

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gwinforth · 1 year

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There is no character named Fawn in John le Carré's "Karla Trilogy," which consists of the novels "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," "The Honourable Schoolboy," and "Smiley's People."

The main characters of the trilogy are George Smiley, the British intelligence officer who is tasked with uncovering a Soviet mole within the ranks of MI6, and his Soviet counterpart, known only as Karla. Other important characters include various members of the British intelligence community, including Bill Haydon, Percy Alleline, Toby Esterhase, and Peter Guillam.

It is possible that the name Fawn is associated with a different work of fiction or character.

Good news! Fawn's cover is intact, even ChatGPT won't betray him.

Or, wow, even ChatGPT can't find him :\ @sule-skerry

#le carre

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theshatterednotes · 2 years

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John le Carré

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paramaline · 1 year

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WHEN will liam garrigan play fawn

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iancumminsauthor · 2 years

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So Good I read it twice...

I was asked what books I had read twice; these include: - Earth Abides – George R. Stewart - The Stand – Stephen King - Lord of The Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien - The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham - Big Deal – Anthony Holden - Smiley’s People – John Le Carre - Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris

Please let me know in the comments which books were so good that you read them twice.

#LOTR #Le Carre #Stephen King #good books to read #books #tolkien

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andrasthehun · 1 month

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The Men's Book Club

March 19, 2024 One suggested forming a book club at our monthly luncheon of retired friends. It could have been the spicy food at the Indian restaurant that triggered our brain cells to ponder that our wives belong to book clubs while we do not. We discussed that women have many social networks while men do not. Some argued that men traditionally went to work while women raised children at home,…

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#book club #Cold War #East Germany #hungary #Iron Curtain #Le Carre #spy story #The Looking Glass War #United Kingdom

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trusswork · 8 months

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Le Carre again

Le Carre put an amazing twist on the real-life Cambridge Five; instead of history's five actual traitors networked to one another, Le Carre supposed that only one of them (Philby / Haydon) was an actual traitor, while the others (Alleline, Bland, Esterhase / Burgess, Maclean, Blunt, Cairncross) were playacting traitors as part of handling a double agent, while unknowingly enabling the real one.

(Le Carre's cast needs Smiley to make up five, and indeed Smiley was one of Control's five original suspects. The real-life Cairncross might be seen as a similarly marginal fifth.)

#Le Carre #Cambridge Five

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momentsinreading · 10 months

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“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.” - A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré

#john le carre #family memory #history

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steamedtangerine · 2 years

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That scene in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy when the character Jim Prideaux gets betrayed and captured in communist Czechoslovakia is just the kind of thing that would have potentially happened if it is proven that the Top Secret documents Trump had in his possession including info on US (and US ally) spies abroad.

#idiocracy #le carre

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inkatesbush · 2 minutes

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‘“He’s a shell,” Kate said. “All you have to do is find the hermit crab that climbed into him. Don’t look for the truth about him. The truth is what we gave him of ourselves.”’

—A Perfect Spy, John Le Carré

#words #le carre

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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