"… potential recruits with the right skills
have too often been heading for business,
and those who do choose government work
often go to the National Security Agency…."
Review: Einsatz in this journal—
The German title of "The Recruit" (released Jan. 31, 2003)
is "Der Einsatz." Its MacGuffin is "'Ice 9."
The two symbols on the monolith from yesterday —
— may, if one likes, be interpreted as standing for
Damnation Morning and for the Windmill of Time
(alternately, as motifs for a ukara cloth).
The above explanation may help those confused by
knight's-move discourse like that described by
Jemima in The Eiger Sanction .
Monolith for Maggie, continued from yesterday
"The young woman counted—
'Otu, abua, ato, ano, ise, isii, asaa'—
using what remained to her of
the secret language…."
— Opening sentence of the prologue to The Choir Boats,
a 2009 novel by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
The piano link in today's previous post suggests a review
of a post from Feb. 11, 2008. That post suggests in turn
a passage from the Trevanian classic The Eiger Sanction
that says, in part…
"Often it was unnecessary to finish a sentence…."
(Damnation Morning, continued)
For the late, great Bebo Valdés, who
reportedly died on Friday in Stockholm:
"Mr. Valdés never returned to Cuba. He played piano
in Stockholm hotel lounges for more than three decades."
— Ben Ratliff in this morning's New York Times
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