Anthony Lane, I Spy, John le Carré and the rise of George Smiley, The New Yorker, December 12, 2011
Truths are misty and multiple, like ghosts. Believe in them all you like, but you won’t pin them down.
Anthony Lane, I Spy, John le Carré and the rise of George Smiley, The New Yorker, December 12, 2011 "He took his lamp in one hand and went all around, wondering that so quaint and beautiful an old house had been so long neglected."
Bram Stoker, The Judge's House "As I lighted a railway reading lantern which I always carry in case I want to read after the lamps are out, I perceived that the porthole was again open, and a sort of creeping horror began to take possession of me which I never felt before nor wish to feel again."
F. Marion Crawford, The Upper Berth "He was one morning busily engaged putting the finishing stitches to a pair of shoes for the exciseman when the door of his dwelling, which he thought was carefully fastened, was suddenly opened, and a tall figure enveloped in a large black cloak and wearing a broad-rimmed hat drawn over his brows stalked into the shop."
Anonymous, The Sutor* of Selkirk * The word "sutor" meant shoemaker. |
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