![]() It was rather as though some strange inherited parrot had begun to speak. ![]() To his surprise something really did emerge. 'Dionysia, the wicked wife of Cleon,' he read, 'met with an end proportionable to her deserts'. The first group of figures, he remembered, indicated the page, the line and the word with which the coding began. Gloomily he took down Lamb's 'Tales from Shakespeare' - how he had always detested Elia and the essay on Roast Pork. Yet its by the great Graham Greene therefore I made my way through it, and the last section of the book was more satisfying. It would have amused in its time in the late 50s but it has lost its edge. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was not even certain (so long ago his lesson seemed) that he could decode it, but he recognised a single group, 59200, which had an abrupt and monitory appearance as though Hawthorne that moment had come accusingly up the stairs. Our Man in Havana, meant as an absurdist sendup of the intelligence world, shows its age. It was his first telegram and he noticed that it was addressed from London. “He went upstairs and opened the telegram it was addressed to a department in the British Consulate, and the figures which followed had an ugly look like the lottery tickets that remained unsold on the last day of a draw. ![]()
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