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Sir C
03-07-2017, 03:59 PM
Keeping this secret was killing me, but now all can be revealed. :cloud9:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/george-smiley-to-return-new-john-le-carre-novel-a-legacy-of-spies
Burney
03-07-2017, 04:03 PM
Keeping this secret was killing me, but now all can be revealed. :cloud9:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/george-smiley-to-return-new-john-le-carre-novel-a-legacy-of-spies

So he'll be dead in it, then? :-( He won't be much good dead imo.
Sir C
03-07-2017, 04:05 PM
So he'll be dead in it, then? :-( He won't be much good dead imo.

I'm not sure, I think he might reset rhe chronology, like he did with Peter Guillam before.

He can make the characters whatever ages he likes, tbh. It's all made up, anyhoo.
Peter
03-07-2017, 04:07 PM
Keeping this secret was killing me, but now all can be revealed. :cloud9:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/george-smiley-to-return-new-john-le-carre-novel-a-legacy-of-spies

I don't believe you.
Sir C
03-07-2017, 04:08 PM
I don't believe you.

What gives you cause to question my integrity, peter?
Peter
03-07-2017, 04:13 PM
What gives you cause to question my integrity, peter?

I just cant believe that any mere mortal is capable of living with a secret of such import.

Well done, you (if true)
Sir C
03-07-2017, 04:16 PM
I just cant believe that any mere mortal is capable of living with a secret of such import.

Well done, you (if true)

Well, it is true, and I agree with you that it has been quite the burden.

I know something else about it too but I can't tell you that yet, so I'm still suffering. :-(
Burney
03-07-2017, 04:20 PM
Well, it is true, and I agree with you that it has been quite the burden.

I know something else about it too but I can't tell you that yet, so I'm still suffering. :-(

Does he die in the end?
Sir C
03-07-2017, 04:21 PM
Does he die in the end?

No, not about the plot of the book. Other stuff. (The butler did it.)
Burney
03-07-2017, 04:22 PM
No, not about the plot of the book. Other stuff. (The butler did it.)

About Le Carré or another author?

Has Patrick O'Brian come out of retirement? :cloud9:
Sir C
03-07-2017, 04:23 PM
About Le Carré or another author?

Has Patrick O'Brian come out of retirement? :cloud9:

I can say no more, I'm afraid :-(
Burney
03-07-2017, 04:26 PM
I can say no more, I'm afraid :-(

It's Patrick O'Brian, isn't it? He's back. Or George McDonald Fraser?

After all, it's just 'resetting the chronology', isn't it? :shrug:
Sir C
03-07-2017, 04:31 PM
It's Patrick O'Brian, isn't it? He's back. Or George McDonald Fraser?

After all, it's just 'resetting the chronology', isn't it? :shrug:

:nono: Peter Guillam isn't real. I can decide he's 25, and not be wrong, because he's just pretendy. Patrick O'Brian was real, and now he's really dead, so if I decide he's still alive, I'm wrong.

I appreciate that the difference between reality and fiction can be tricky, b. If you rub your forehead against an artexed wall for a while, you might get it. :thumbup:
redgunamo
03-07-2017, 04:40 PM
So he'll be dead in it, then? :-( He won't be much good dead imo.

I don't mind so long as that Guinness-fraud doesn't get the nod in the inevitable film adaptation again.

:fishing:
Burney
03-07-2017, 04:43 PM
I don't mind so long as that Guinness-fraud doesn't get the nod in the inevitable film adaptation again.

:fishing:

You may consider your face slapped. Your choice of weapons. My seconds will call upon your seconds to arrange the details.
Burney
03-07-2017, 04:44 PM
:nono: Peter Guillam isn't real. I can decide he's 25, and not be wrong, because he's just pretendy. Patrick O'Brian was real, and now he's really dead, so if I decide he's still alive, I'm wrong.

I appreciate that the difference between reality and fiction can be tricky, b. If you rub your forehead against an artexed wall for a while, you might get it. :thumbup:

Patrick O'Brian was very much not real. A more fictional man you'd struggle to meet in a day's walk.