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Legmen for Haydon's Soviet networks, they'd been around for years, known simply as the Russians. They were blond and squat and they looked more like Russians than the real ones.
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Nothing is worth the destruction of another human being. Somewhere the path of pain and betrayal must end.
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Guillam noticed the queer colour of Haydon’s cheeks. A blushing red, daubed high on the bones, but deep, made up of tiny broken veins. It gave him, thought Guillam in his heightened state of nervousness, a slightly Dorian Gray look.
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Out of date perhaps, but who wasn’t these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind.
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Like Charlie chaplin coming third in the charlie chaplin look alike competition
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Jan-Maat wrote: "Like Charlie chaplin coming third in the charlie chaplin look alike competition"How funny😊! Apparently Dolly Parton has a similar story and she did even better than Charlie: ending up last, in a lookalike competition with drag queens.
You have tempted me to read the Smiley books now. I remember watching the BBC TV productions with Alec Guinness as Smiley but I have never read the books. I will have to find copies somewhere.
Ilse wrote: "Jan-Maat wrote: "Like Charlie chaplin coming third in the charlie chaplin look alike competition"How funny😊! Apparently Dolly Parton has a similar story and she did even better than Charlie: endi..."
It sounds to good to be true, so perhaps it is just a story...
Len wrote: "You have tempted me to read the Smiley books now. I remember watching the BBC TV productions with Alec Guinness as Smiley but I have never read the books. I will have to find copies somewhere."Len, I loved every minute of those productions with Alec Guinness. Watching them last year made me long to read the books (none of which are sadly available in the library) and guess what luck happened? I was gifted a copy of this for Christmas - the writing is superb ♥ :).
Jan-Maat wrote: It sounds to good to be true, so perhaps it is just a story...True or not, it struck me as a funny variation of the lookalike kind of story (such contests, with other protagonists, recently seem a thing too).
