#silverview

[fecklesheckleshacklesschmeckles]

sometimes "uneducated" vibing wins over pseudo-intellectual hypercorrection 👍

[lecarreverse]

Silverview comprises a kind of trilogy with the last two novels that were published while le Carré was still alive. All three books follow internal affairs investigations within the Circus, concentrating on the internal machinations of the intelligence bureaucracy rather than the external adventures of the spies in its employ. The short novel A Legacy of Spies revisits the double-agent operation from The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, casting the plot that made le Carré famous in a considerably less charitable light; Agent Running in the Field, meanwhile, follows a pair of British spies who both betray their country for separate but noble goals.

The tone of these novels is somewhere between rueful and accusatory: If George Smiley praised intelligence work because it gave him “the opportunity to pay” his country back, the characters in le Carré’s final novels are downright hostile toward Britain, excoriating its “minority Tory cabinet of tenth-raters” and its “pig-ignorant foreign secretary,” now the prime minister. It’s only a matter of time before the intelligence “deep state” begins to follow the dictates of the idiots running the daylight government, and what’s a spy with integrity supposed to do then? Thus the act of unsanctioned disclosure, which in the Smiley novels figures as the ultimate betrayal, figures in these novels as a natural function of conscience for those imprisoned in the secret world. The final trilogy wheels back around on the figure of the double agent, reframing the act of defection not as a tragic betrayal of political ideals but as an essential structural feature of a duplicitous society.

John le Carré’s Genius for Surveillance (The New Republic)

[mifhortunach]

playlist: wizardcore!!

<333 !! I’m so glad that u sent this & that it finally spurred me to start compiling a more through wizards-only playlist; so just excerpts here ig!

My Stick! / Bad Lip Reading

Rat Queen / TMG 

Open a Can of Human Beans / Dukes of Stratosphear

Black Stone Wielder / Candlemass 

Its Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland) / bnl

In the Hall of the Mountain King / Tesla Coils

Bod’s Message / Essential Logic

Waltz for Gretchen / Andy Creeggan 

[justforbooks]

Le Carré’s final complete novel was published in October, in the week of what would have been his 90th birthday. Having made his fortune, Julian Lawndsley has left the City to run a bookshop in East Anglia, where a meeting with an eccentric Polish émigré and former spy draws him into a web of intrigue. The cast of characters, including several husband-and-wife spy pairings, are compromised by secrets, loyalties and allegiances both professional and familial, and no one, least of all the Service itself, is innocent. Valedictory, with a final turn of events that ends surprisingly but pleasingly in a cock-up, this is a satisfying coda to the career of the finest thriller writer of the 20th century.

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[toofarforgracie]

“And when all that was done and dusted, he would ask him frankly, man to man: who are you, Edward – you who have been so many people and pretended to be still others? Who do we find when we’ve pulled away the layers of disguise? Or were you ever only the sum of your disguises?“

[fecklesheckleshacklesschmeckles]

oh my GOD so for Reasons i am only just getting around to watching the xmas edition of saturday kitchen with james acaster and ed gamble that aired on 6th december

and at 24 minutes in, this happens:

James: Are you gonna massicate them? Ed: What? No! James: ...Andi said it earlier. Presenter: Macerate? No, cos you macerate sweet things. Ed: Also, masticate's chewing stuff up, so I hope he's not gonna do that.

@silverview is this merely a wonderful coincidence or did you take inspiration from another of my classic smartarse/idiot blorbo pairings in writing the one of them that's in the delightful fic you gifted me for xmas???

either way you should have seen the grin on my face when we witnessed this moment :D talk about an easter egg XD <333

[fecklesheckleshacklesschmeckles]

thanks to the wayback machine i now know how reece announced his upcoming appearance on bakeoff

absolute props to the lad, this is incredibly funny to me

[fecklesheckleshacklesschmeckles]

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[00:07:46] What do you do when I'm at the house? I'm at home eating cakes! I sit on them, you eat them, that's how we do it...