("A Perfect Spy", "Don Quixote", "Winter In Thrush Green")

[fiefoe]

John le Carre, Cervantes, and 'Miss Read'.

__ Magnus of course is in whatever mood he needs to be in.
__ There was always something rather shocking after a lifetime of symbols and codenames, about seeing his own name, naked and undisguised, splurged over a travel document.

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• (Cervantes died on the same day as Shakespeare (1616/04/23) nominally because England's calendar wasn't reformed and was still 10 days late.)
• Feliciano de Silva..'s letters of challenge that knights sent to ladies, often containing expression such as: "The reason for your unreasonable treatment of my reason so enfeebles my reason that I have reason to complain of your beauty."
• A good woman resembles a mirror of clear shining glass, which may be dimmed and dulled by every breath that reaches it.
• Scipio lands in Africa and stumbles as he leaps ashore. His soldiers take it for a bad omen, but he embraces the ground and cries: "You cannot escape, Africa, for I have you clasped in my arms."

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__ 'People shrink at cocktail parties,' Dimity assured her. 'It's because they stand up and are packed together neatly. At tea parties their legs are spread all over the floor.'
__ ... old Piggott who was embarking upon a long rigmarole about the reaction of false as against natural teeth when they were being set on edge.