The Melancholy Korean

More Casual Tuesday

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Angier Biddle Duke on the White House lawn

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Fully armored:

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Part 1

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

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photo by Daniele Tamagni

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“This girl is rather a mysterious character… Lettie also has a sister who is very like her. They are both tall, fair, quite nice looking, and of a rather superior type.” - British intelligence agent, M2

Melita Norwood, ‘Lettie’, British civil servant and KGB spy, recruited in 1937, publicly exposed in 1999.

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James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University, 1933-53

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Hebert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, statesman, Warden of New College, Oxford 1925-40

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Part 3

When I see a couple of kids 
And guess he’s fucking her and she’s 
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm, 
I know this is paradise 

Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives— 
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side 
Like an outdated combine harvester, 
And everyone young going down the long slide 

To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if 
Anyone looked at me, forty years back, 
And thought, That’ll be the life; 
No God any more, or sweating in the dark 

About hell and that, or having to hide 
What you think of the priest. He 
And his lot will all go down the long slide 
Like free bloody birds. And immediately 

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: 
The sun-comprehending glass, 
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows 
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

(Philip Larkin)