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"How did you live through all that? [Margaret Wittkower, an old friend, asked Blunt.] You had lunch with the Queen, you were the conservator of her paintings, you knew the whole royal family, you accepted invitations for weekends, you traveled with people of a class that you wanted to destroy. And on the other hand you were an art historian ( Read more... ) -
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Will Shakespeare had disappeared from the Times office recently, which was a pity, really. As terribly absurd as it had been, there had been something heartening about having the famous poet frustratedly punching away at whatever he had been writing whilst Anthony had been trying to come up with something marginally interesting to say about the ( Read more... ) -
On the merits of hiding in plain sight (ooc and just for fun)
-from the forward of The Path to Freedom by Michael Collins, on his techniques for inflitrating British intelligence:
"One of his central ideas was derived from G.K. Chesterson's The Man Who Was Thursday. He was given the book by Joseph Plunkett, his immediate superior in 1916. Plunkett, who was dying of tuberculosis, took part in the fighting and ( Read more... ) -
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A strange, deathly silence had fallen over the house on Benedict Street over the past few days. Three days, to be exact, three days since Anthony had told Kim his plans, that he had made them safe, but with that flourish was finished with spying for good. Nothing had happened since, he hadn’t heard a word on the subject since from anyone. Now it ( Read more... ) -
Backstory
For the history meme“It’s not your fault, y’know ( Read more... ) -
More canon clips
In which Anthony loses his temper and it is slightly frightening.
Anthony's other birthday present. And the smirk of DOOM.
Anthony and the Queen, part II. "Ladies, so I'm told, are not permitted to take an interest in Anthony Blunt's Percy Pointer." -
Canon excerpts
(I posted these over at my_slate a while ago, but I thought I'd keep track of the things I've uploaded here)
"I'm in bed with Virginia Woolf's socks." Julian/Anthony love.
The Four all 'meet' Sort of. And Anthony makes a fool out of Kim.
Anthony and the Queen, part I "Ponces and spies, Anthony."
The cigarette scene! Anthony is vetted and we learn ( Read more... ) -
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When it came down to it, Anthony Blunt’s cave was, well, just a cave. But there was a certain indefinable something about it that gave it a sort of very, very English dignity. His bed was makeshift but neat, and the books he had collected were carefully lined up on a small ledge on one wall. Even the fire pit near the cave’s entrance did not bring ( Read more... ) -
For desperatescreen
My typist is far too fond of these 'memes', if you ask me, but this one had me a bit amused.
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Ninth Level of Hell - Cocytus!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)Very LowLevel 2 (Lustful)Very High ( Read more... )