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Dostoevsky eyes (Great episode challenge 24-30 November 2017: The Pop Art Affair, 1)

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Great episode challenge 24-30 November 2017 (The Pop Art Affair, 1)
(Who painted the “other” portrait, and where (and why) is Illya hiding it?)

Dostoevsky eyes

With Mr Waverly successfully conned into buying that extraordinary artwork of Sylvia’s, she tried to persuade me to buy (unseen), for our office, a drawing she’d done of Illya. She said he didn’t want it because he “had a portrait” already. News to me. I’ve never seen a portrait of him – only official photos, and one or two of mine he’s appeared in. Anyway, if he hadn’t wanted it, it couldn’t have been very good, so I declined, valuing Illya’s friendship and the future of the partnership slightly higher than the pleasure of tormenting him.

Something had happened between them – presumably while they were chained together and out of sight – and it was fairly obvious what (and it wasn’t hiccups). Illya’s starting, let alone continuing, a relationship with a girl barely out of her teens and rather naïve, was baffling, considering his general preferences for women with a modicum of experience, if not intelligence. I wanted to know, too, why my partner had given that other girl, Heidi (who also seemed revoltingly taken with him) such an odd look when she identified him so immediately because of Sylvia’s description of his “Dostoevsky eyes.”

So, what was this Dostoevsky thing? Significant? Probably not, but as there was only the last mission to write up, and I didn’t feel like doing that, I thought I’d put in a little research.

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Bad habits

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Short Affair Challenge. 20 November 2017 (Admire. Brown)

Bad habits

It’s a fact: secret agents tend to live dangerously, even when they aren’t on operational duty. If it isn’t alcohol or women, it’s fast cars and a bad diet.

The canteen did its best to offer a range of good and nutritious food, cooked in interesting ways to tempt the most juvenile, or merely jaded, appetite – but there were still those who stuck to the kind of thing that their mothers wouldn’t have approved of. Of course, alcohol wasn’t served, so how agents behaved around that was their own affair.

As for women and cars, love-hate affairs was the best description, really, and two agents in particular epitomised the likely response of a top agent to either.( Read more... )

Dostoevsky eyes

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Great episode challenge 24-30 November 2017 (The Pop Art Affair. 1)

(Who painted the “other” portrait, and where (and why) is Illya hiding it?)

Dostoevsky eyes

With Mr Waverly successfully conned into buying that extraordinary artwork of Sylvia’s, she tried to persuade me to buy (unseen), for our office, a drawing she’d done of Illya. She said he didn’t want it because he “had a portrait” already. News to me. I’ve never seen a portrait of him – only official photos, and one or two of mine he’s appeared in. Anyway, if he hadn’t wanted it, it couldn’t have been very good, so I declined, valuing Illya’s friendship and the future of the partnership slightly higher than the pleasure of tormenting him.

Something had happened between them – presumably while they were chained together and out of sight – and it was fairly obvious what (and it wasn’t hiccups). Illya’s starting, let alone continuing, a relationship with a girl barely out of her teens and rather naïve, was baffling, considering his general preferences for women with a modicum of experience, if not intelligence. I wanted to know, too, why my partner had given that other girl, Heidi (who also seemed revoltingly taken with him) such an odd look when she identified him so immediately because of Sylvia’s description of his “Dostoevsky eyes.”

So, what was this Dostoevsky thing? Significant? Probably not, but as there was only the last mission to write up, and I didn’t feel like doing that, I thought I’d put in a little research.

( Read more... )