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Even the spy’s sexiness is bathetic

The mole offers the spy story its mise en abyme: their every act is at once real and false, an embodied double negative; they threaten at every moment to double or triple themselves

American spies are naïfs or pallid sidekicks

I have noticed this tendency to reductionism in X before. The text is infinitely variegated, the subtext always the same.

spend the afternoons swimming in the limpid water