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A couplet of Auden’s rang in his mind: let us honour if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one.
— Oct 30, 2026 01:58PM
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Against stupidity the gods themselves fight in basin, thought Smiley: but Schiller had forgotten the bureaucrats.
— Nov 02, 2026 12:28PM
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Oct 31, 2026 02:44AM
Excellent! You are back in Smiley's square world!
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Jan-Maat wrote: "Excellent! You are back in Smiley's square world!"And quite enjoying it, thank you :-)) - reading the whole trilogy in one year was not what I had imagined reading in the beginning 2026, but I am happy having dropped other reading plans to plunge into Smiley's world, in writing this time - and I am looking forward to meet Karla :D!
Ilse wrote: "Jan-Maat wrote: "Excellent! You are back in Smiley's square world!"And quite enjoying it, thank you :-)) - reading the whole trilogy in one year was not what I had imagined reading in the beginnin..."
Meet Karla? Too bad that he has only just died, poor fellow.
Poor Patrick Stewart indeed, but he lives on in the books, the films and the series (with or without hair)?
No hair on Karla's head. Hair is a bourgeois impertinence, not suitable for an avany-garde chekist 😃
Jan-Maat wrote: "No hair on Karla's head. Hair is a bourgeois impertinence, not suitable for an avany-garde chekist 😃"😁 And Baldness makes it easier to use wigs, I guess - which can be handy as a spy. It is also becoming when you are a revolutionary poet, Mayakovsky -style.
Jan-Maat wrote: "No hair on Karla's head. Hair is a bourgeois impertinence, not suitable for an avany-garde chekist 😃"😁 And Baldness makes it easier to use wigs, I guess - which can be handy as a spy. It is also becoming when you are a revolutionary poet, Mayakovsky -style.
Ilse wrote: "Jan-Maat wrote: "No hair on Karla's head. Hair is a bourgeois impertinence, not suitable for an avany-garde chekist 😃"😁 And Baldness makes it easier to use wigs, I guess - which can be handy as a..."
Very true 😀