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inkatesbush · 6 days

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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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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

#le carre

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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 · 4 days

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“Why did Pym do it, Tom? In the beginning was the deed. Not the motive, least of all the word. It was his own choice. No one forced him. Anywhere along the line, or right at the start, he could have yelled no and surprised himself. He never did.”

—A Perfect Spy, John Le Carré

#words #le carre

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

- David Cornwell (John le Carré)

#cornwell #david cornwell #le carre #john le carre #ideology #author #writer #literature #british #society

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mac-a08 · 6 months

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They share the same vibe.

#vertin #ange le carre #reverse 1999 #princess principal

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azjames34-blog · 3 months

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Princess Principal fan anyone

All my Princess Principal artworks so far, mostly from last year

#girls love #gl #yuri #anime #yuri anime #yuri art #princess #princess principal #ange x charlotte #ange le carre #charlotte #pripri #kagurabachi meme for some reason

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bloodraven55 · 10 months

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in all seriousness the princess principal dub is 100% worth watching if only for this one absolutely perfect line delivery 💀

#princess principal #ange le carre #princess principal ange #princess principal dorothy #princess principal beatrice

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midnightechoes · 1 year

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So this week is going to go down as maybe the most sapphic week in animation history. It’s going to have a great case, there are so many sapphic shows or shows with prominent sapphic couples airing this week.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Here’s a quick rundown:

Yuri Is My Job!

Premiering on Crunchyroll on April 6th.

Yuri is My Job! is based on a yuri manga of the same name. It follows high schooler Hime, who cares deeply about her image as sweet and helpful, even though she’s actually selfish. She accidentally injures the manager of a cafe, and agrees to work there to make up for it. But this is no ordinary cafe, it’s like a cafe dinner theater where all the waitresses play characters from a fictional high school and act out skits for the patrons. Hime’s character is supposed to be in love with one of the other waitresses’ character, but she starts actually falling for the girl. Only problem is, behind the scenes the other waitress seems to hate her.

Yeah, that sounds kind of bonkers! I can already see the story now, Hime starting out playing a role, and eventually having to legitimately earn the love of Mitsuki.

Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story

Season 2 premiering on Crunchyroll on Friday, April 7th

Ah Birdie Wing. If you saw season one, you know just how delightful wacky this show is. It follows the stories of Eve, a golfer that plays in illegal underground golf matches for the mob, and Aoi, a golf prodigy and the new sensation of the golf world. Their lives crash into each other and the chemistry is overwhelming and immediate.

Technically Eve and Aoi aren’t canon as of the end of s1, but it’s hard to imagine that the show isn’t heading in that direction. It makes no effort to hide the fact that these two are into each other.

I’m so excited to see what season 2 has in store for these two. Birdie Wing is just a delightfully weird little show.

Princess Principal: Crown Handler Chapter 3

Premieres in theaters in Japan on Friday, April 7th

Alright, so this won’t be useful to a lot of people reading this, as this is only premiering in Japan this weekend. But I wanted to mention it because (a) it’ll come over to the US sometime this year, and (b) Princess Principal is awesome and I want to promote it when I can.

Princess Principal was a 12 episode series that aired in 2017, and Crown Handler is a six-part sequel OVA series.

In a nutshell, Princess Principal is a steampunk spy thriller set in an alternate universe European kingdom that has been divided by a wall, Berlin-style. It follows a team of spies, masquerading as high school girls, as they try to prevent the two sides from going to war.

I know, “why is this on a list of gay shit?” Well, because it is. Two of the main characters, Ange and Princess Charlotte, are big-time into each other and while the original series does the anime thing of “we’re only allowed to go so far with this”, the OG series has a lot of intimate scenes between the two and does end *SPOILERS* with the two of them sitting on the beach together while holding hands.

And perhaps Crown Handler, being made years later, can finally take their relationship farther.

RWBY Volume 9

Volume 9 episode 8 airing on Crunchyroll on Saturday, April 8th

RWBY has been ongoing, and the current volume has been airing since February, but there’ll be another episode this Saturday. Right now RWBY is in the middle of dealing with a lot of trauma, BUT, the bees are canon and dating so every episode of RWBY is now officially gay. So says me.

The Owl House: Watching and Dreaming

Series finale airing on the Disney Channel on Saturday, April 8th

I’M NOT READY TO LOSE THIS SHOW! 😭

*ahem* The third and final season 3 special airs on Saturday, and promises to be mega emotional and super gay.

I’m grateful that this show had a chance to finish its story, something a lot of sapphic media doesn’t get to do. But I am still pissed about it getting cancelled in the first place simply because it didn’t fit their “brand” (read: this show is too gay for Disney).

But I just know that Dana and her team put together a sensational finale.

Mobile Suit Gundam: the Witch From Mercury

Season 2 premiering on Crunchyroll on Sunday, April 9th.

Affectionately called G-Witch, season 1 of this show was a revelation in the fall. It follows the story of Suletta Mercury, precious cinnamon roll and the most talented mobile suit pilot around, and Miorine Rembran, daughter of the president of the Benerit Group, a mega-corporation that has massive political power.

The show revolves around a school that’s mostly full of the children of powerful people. And then there’s Suletta, a nobody that just wants to be a normal girl and have a normal school life but through a series of events ends up in a mobile suit duel that she easily wins, earning her the title of Holder, which makes her Miroine’s groom.

At first, the two treat the arrangement as a business arrangement, both seeing practical value in this arranged engagement. But it’s obvious that Miorine is actually pretty into Suletta from the start, and we see Suletta slowly falling for Miorine too.

G-Witch is incredible. Part awesome mecha fights, part political intrigue, part romance between two useless girls who’d rather die that admit their actual feelings.

I am SO EXCITED for season 2!

LGBTQ media hasn’t had it great as of late, with a ton of frustrating cancellations and it almost feeling like Hollywood is going backwards in terms of its commitment to giving us space to tell our stories.

But animation, both in the US and in Japan, seems to be making great strides, being our light in the dark.

All five of these shows are airing episodes this week, and Crown Handler will be in theaters this week and on streaming/blu-ray later this year. RWBY has been airing for weeks and its been the gayest volume yet. the Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady just finished airing and was wonderfully sapphic. I’m In Love With the Villainess is scheduled to air sometimes this year. And just maybe we might get Arcane season 2 before the end of the year.

I’m excited for how sapphic and yuri animation is progressing, I hope it keeps going forward.

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