Afternoon. You had left over pizza for lunch. Ran a couple errands and
just finished chapter fourteen of Fire and Fury. Carol is drying her
hair, planning on renewing her driver's license on her birthday, tomorrow
morning. You drove over today to renew your automobile handicap placards for
five years, as you had a letter from Dr. Merling but you have to wait until the
end of June to renew them. - Amorella
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Chapter Fourteen focusses on the Syrian chemical attack on a rebel held town
where many children were victims. Trump liked having generals around but wasn't
sure what he wanted to do about the attack until he saw videos from the area.
He was heartsick for the children and then wanted to do something, to act. More
politics but eventually the U.S. struck back. Trump felt better but it didn't
take too much imagination to see Trump at first, waited to see how the wind
blew. The chapter ends at Mar-a-Lago with Trump visiting with the Chinese. Trump's weakness is seen in
having to wait for the videos, being informed by military data was not his
style. Odd, I think, for a man who is a billionaire, one would think he would
love to use numbers in the situation room rather than videos. Fire and Fury is
an interesting read and provides small insights into Trump's actions or lack of
them along the way. (1633)
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You would like more insight into the Amorella,
insight such as: 'How does Amorella define herself in relationship to the
unfolded spirit world of humans after physical death, descriptions throughout
the blog and the first three self-published Merlyn books.? - Amorella
1638 hours. I would. I didn't
know how to phrase the question; I didn't really have an exact question, but
what you just wrote describes my muddled thoughts with less ambiguity.
Post. - Amorella
Models
Analysis
More tomorrow. Post. -
Amorella
2205 hours. My first
notion on the above is to attempt to write a character sketch of the Amorella
so I checked online and found MIT has a list of 638 primary personality traits.
I made a copy but these relate to human traits of course. I also have a list
(article) from Psychology Today and an article from Wikipedia to reinforce my
sense of what character is. First though, I feel I have to define what you are.
The best way to me is to think of you as an imaginary character I made up. Last night we watched "60
Minutes" and John le Carré was the focus.
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John le Carré
From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
David John Moore
Cornwell
(born 19 October 1931) is best known by the pen name John le Carré.
He is a British author of espionage novels.
During the 1950s and '60s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret
Intelligence Service. His third novel, The Spy Who Came
in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and
remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he
left MI6 to become a full-time author.
In
2011, he was awarded the Goethe Medal.
Selected
and edited from Wikipedia
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One of the points the
author made was that his characters were themselves in his head and he used was
George Smiley. This is selected from
Wikipedia's and is out of order. The 'Model's section appears after the 'Analysis'
section in Wikipedia.
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Models
In 1995, le Carré said that the character of George Smiley was
inspired by his one-time Lincoln College, Oxford tutor, the former Rev. Vivian Green—a renowned historian and
author with an encyclopaedic knowledge.However, other than the thick
spectacles and Green's habit of disappearing into a crowd, there were too many
dissimilarities between the loquacious Green and the reticent Smiley to make
this a clear match, and so other sources for Smiley continued to be named. It has been suggested that le Carré
subconsciously took the name of his hero from special forces and intelligence
officer Colonel David de
Crespigny Smiley. More commonly, it was rumoured that Smiley was
modelled on Sir Maurice Oldfield,
a former head of British Intelligence, who physically resembled him. Le Carré denied the rumours, citing
the fact that Oldfield and he were not contemporaries, although he and Alec Guinness did lunch with Oldfield while Guinness
was researching the role, and Guinness adopted several of Oldfield's mannerisms
of dress and behaviour for his performance.
Oldfield himself believed that, although Green probably inspired
le Carré, the character of Smiley was primarily based on John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, who
had been le Carré's boss when he originally joined MI5 prior to his career in
MI6. In 1999, le Carré confirmed
that Bingham was also an inspiration for Smiley, and in 2000 went further, writing in
an introduction to a reissue of one of Bingham's novels that "He had been
one of two men who had gone into the making of George Smiley. Nobody who knew
John and the work he was doing could have missed the description of Smiley in
my first novel".
Various le Carré works involve other characters resembling
Bingham; the most notable is Jack Brotherhood in A Perfect Spy.
In an introductory essay dated March 1992, le Carré wrote:
"And it is no surprise to me that, when I came to invent my
leading character, George Smiley, I should give him something of Vivian Green's
unlikely wisdom, wrapped in academic learning, and something of Bingham's
devious resourcefulness and simple patriotism also. All fictional characters
are amalgams; all spring from much deeper wells than their apparent
counterparts in life. All in the end, like the poor suspects in my files, are
refitted and remoulded in the writer's imagination, until they are probably
closer to his own nature than to anybody else's. But now that Bingham is dead...it
seems only right that I should acknowledge my debt to him: not merely as a
component of George Smiley, but as the man who first put the spark to my
writing career."
Analysis
Le Carré introduced Smiley at about the same time as Len Deighton's
unnamed anti-hero (Harry Palmer in
the film versions). This was a time when critics and the public were welcoming
more realistic versions of espionage fiction, in contrast to the glamorous
world of Ian Fleming's James Bond.
Smiley is sometimes considered the anti-Bond in the sense that
Bond is an unrealistic figure and is more a portrayal of a male fantasy than a
realistic government agent. George Smiley, on the other hand, is quiet,
mild-mannered and not at all athletic. He lives by his wits and, unlike Bond,
is a master of quiet, disciplined intelligence work, rather than gunplay. In The Honourable Schoolboy it becomes clear that he is not as
adept at bureaucratic manoeuvring as the duplicitous Sam Collins and Saul
Enderby, who are able to use even a great success to force him into retirement.
Also unlike Bond he is not a bed-hopper; in fact it is Smiley's wife Ann who is
notorious for her affairs.
When Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy was
published, the reviewer of The Spectator described Smiley as a "brilliant
spy and totally inadequate man." However, Smiley has his pride, and in the
end, in Smiley's People,
he refuses to take the beautiful Ann back, despite her pleadings.
Smiley is depicted as an exceptionally skilled spymaster, gifted
with a prodigious memory and a talent for getting people to talk. His subtle
interrogation methods, derived from psychology and experience, he imparts to
his understudies, such as Jerry Westerby and Peter Guillam. These are depicted
as far superior to the heavy-handed tactics of the Americans, who are called
"the Cousins" in Circus jargon, and whose entry into a mission always
ensures that things will get a lot rougher.
A student of espionage with a profound insight into human
weakness and fallibility, highly sagacious and incredibly perceptive, he is
very conscious of the immoral, grisly and unethical aspects of his profession.
At the same time he works to inculcate loyalty and discipline into his pupils,
and a sense of moral obligation to the espionage service, and to the country.
Smiley has no patience with the political niceties of Whitehall and their
distaste for classical espionage tactics, including bribery, blackmail, and
turning enemy agents into British double agents. On the other hand, he is not
one of the "hawks" who are given to the sharp, militaristic attitudes
of "the Cousins" (clearly depicted during the climax of The Honourable Schoolboy).
Despite his series of retirements, Smiley's own unflinching
loyalty to and support for his people inculcates loyalty in them. Thus, whether
in or out of the Service he is able to maintain an extensive range of aides and
support-staff, extending even to "retired" police officers, former
and present Service members.
Le Carré describes him in A
Murder of Quality as a
somewhat short and fat man, who always wears expensive but badly fitting
clothes (he "dresses like a bookie... short and stubby"). He has a
habit of cleaning his glasses on the "fat end" of his necktie. Also
in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,
le Carré wrote that his wife describes him as "a reptile that can regulate
his body temperature". Gary Oldman,
in an interview with Charlie Rose promoting the film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, said
that this description is "the key" to Smiley
In March 2010, while giving a talk on his life and works at the
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, le Carré responded to a question concerning what
became of Smiley by telling the audience that although he would like to think
of Smiley as a Holmesian figure, never having really retired,
he acknowledged that to his mind, the character would now be "very old and
getting past it—certainly in his nineties". This accords with the later
chronology. Le Carré envisaged Smiley now to be "keeping bees
somewhere", still alive but very much retired.
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and edited from - Wikipedia - George Smiley
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2242 hours. The above was
also mentioned in the "60 Minute" broadcast. This is what gave me the
idea of putting together a character study of the Amorella.
If you set this up properly you will also have to show how I was used
in the first three Merlyn books, that is, as the characters I chose to be. -
Amorella
2249 hours. This may be a very
interesting project in that I also have to show evidence of you within the
encountersinmind blogspot blog. I should like to do this as objective as
possible.
There will have to be a transition from the Amorella as an Angelic-like
character to an imaginary one. How will that be written with authenticity? -
Amorella
2254 hours.
I will need your help, I am sure Amorella.
How
can you maintain 'objectivity' with my help? - Amorella
2255 hours.
Good question. Perhaps I will have to do this project without your help.
How
can you do that? - Amorella
2256 hours.
Good question.
You
come up with writing projects such as this as a study for yourself. You want to
bring me to life like le Carré did George Smiley. - Amorella
2300 hours.
It's just the concept of a writing project.
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