apophenic dreams.

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in a casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

- C.S. Lewis

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Bill had a feeling he could not describe that Jim lived so precariously on the world’s surface that he might at any time fall off it into a void; he feared that Jim was like himself, without a natural gravity to hold him on.

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He’s my other half, between us we’d make one marvellous man, except that neither of us can sing. And Fan, you know that feeling when you just have to go out and find someone new or the world will die on you?

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imaginaryunit:

‘Even Peter can make that connection,’ Smiley declared, with heavy skittishness. ‘Sequence, Peter, sequence, come on!’

‘The plane was sold two weeks after Tiu returned from Shanghai,’ Guillam replied, reluctantly.

‘And so?’ Smiley demanded. ‘And so? What do we look at next?’

‘We ask ourselves who owns the firm of Aerosuis,’ Guillam snapped, really quite irritated.

‘Precisely. Thank you,’ said Smiley in mock relief. ‘You restore my faith in you, Peter. Now then. Whom do we discover at the helm of Aerosuis, do you think? The Bangkok representative, no less.’

Guillam glanced at the notes on Smiley’s desk, but Smiley was too quick and clapped his hands over them.

‘Tiu,’ Guillam said, actually blushing.

‘Hoorah. Yes. Tiu. Well done.’

- John le Carré, “The Honourable schoolboy” (Chapter 12)

Exactly in this moment I realized that Peter’s totally Smiley’s “Watson” :)

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