I thought she was just joking but it fits. LOL.
Steven has some more parts to the Quzzle
Long term diphenhydramine use has been linked to dementia.
Some insight on this Q drop
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Mar 07 2018 16:02:03
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>>580366
Snowden’s girlfriend performs in a circus.
Also, John Le Carre’s George Smiley worked out of “The Circus.”
Mar 07 2018 16:03:01
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>>580412
The FATHER is who?
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http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990325&slug=2951363
Scoundrels & Sons — Author John Le Carre Digs Deep In His Own Past For The Themes Of His Work
By Mary Ann Gwinn
Seattle Times Book Editor
There were some formidable ghosts in the sanctuary of Seattle’s First United Methodist Church on Tuesday night, keeping watch as author John le Carre took 640 rapt listeners on a walk through his books and his past.
There was Ronnie Cornwell, le Carre’s dead father, a confidence man who has been the basis for pivotal characters in le Carre’s new book, “Single & Single,” and his classic “A Perfect Spy.”
There was George Smiley, the British spy of impregnable integrity and unrelieved gloom, a beloved le Carre character who almost everybody - except le Carre - would like to see resurrected.
There was even a living witness to le Carre’s account of his father. The author’s older brother, Anthony Cornwell, now lives in Lynnwood, and was there, providing his seat mates with an informed commentary on his brother’s work.
Rick Pym, the character in “A Perfect Spy” who was modeled on le Carre’s father, “was pretty true to Daddy,” said Cornwell.
It was a satisfying evening, even (it’s hoped) for the ghosts. Le Carre (real name, David Cornwell) held the audience in the palm of his hand as he read passages from his books and connected them to his own life - though he cautioned that “there is no such thing as a fictional character literally drawn from life - you can draw an inflection or a mannerism (from an actual person), but finally you have to fill that person with the possibility of your own character.”
Le Carre is a gifted actor and mimic, and at times his voice seemed to transmogrify into the velvet-over-steel inflections of Alec Guinness, the actor who played Smiley for the BBC.
“I had my character stolen by Alec Guinness,” le Carre told the Seattle Arts & Lectures crowd. “His voice and mannerisms entered my soul - to the extent that I didn’t know if I could finish the trilogy, “ the three books in which Smiley wrestles down his archenemy, the Communist spy Karla.
In an interview yesterday, le Carre elaborated on the themes that inform his life and work. Though an expert raconteur, le Carre on occasion appeared quite moved by the moral conflict his work explores.
He judges his own generation harshly: “Our generation really screwed it up for our children - this introduction to unbridled capitalism as an alternative to communism,” he said, staring out at the empty seats in the hotel bar. “I’ve reached the point where I’m educated by my children.”
But first, a little history:
David Cornwell was born in 1931. He had a tough childhood. His father, Ronnie, was a confidence man who conned on a grand scale, acquiring and losing tons of money, property, servants and racehorses with neck-snapping speed. His mother left home by the time he turned 5 - Cornwell essentially grew up without one.
Ronnie’s world was inhabited by a cast of underworld characters that le Carre (he took the pen name while he was still in the British secret service) has drawn on to great effect in his novels. Many were Eastern European, and many of Smiley’s “joes” (agents) and shadowy cohorts “are based on a lot of people who flitted in and out of his court, middle Europeans with thick accents,” le Carre said.
Jailed three times, Ronnie was still the only parent le Carre had. He still has a serious grip on the author and his characters. In “Single & Single,” the son, Oliver Single, hides out from his corrupt father, Tiger Single, for a time, making a living as a magician. “Oliver as the performer is very important to me,” le Carre said. “My role in the household was that of entertainer - to my brother, to my father, to his women.”
The premise of “Single & Single,” that Oliver goes to work for his father’s merchant banking firm and discovers corruption on a grand scale, is “what would have happened if my father had been more successful, more restrained, and what if we had been put into the family firm. I imagined myself going into that firm, and getting on to what my father was doing.”
In 1948 Cornwell left England for Switzerland, enrolled at Bern University and began doing the odd job for British intelligence. From then on, until the early 1960s when he quit to write full time, le Carre worked as a spy for Britain’s intelligence services.
Wow!