The Third Man - Graham Greene

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Originally Posted by Emil Miller

It's nothing to do with being black, yellow, white or any other colour but I believe it's based on the number of posts
a member has submitted.

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I was only joking! I like to joke. I am not to be taken seriously.
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Originally Posted by easy75

I was only joking! I like to joke. I am not to be taken seriously.
:)

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Aw, I knew you weren't really black! :)

Actually I still think it's rotten you can't vote. Next time we have one of these, PM me your choice and I'll vote it for you. We can alternate that way until you have enough posts to vote for yourself. Until then, at least we'll both have .5 votes. Seriously. We noobs have to stick together, right?

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Originally Posted by Pompey Bum

I think you're right, especially when the convert wants to tell his newly chosen orthodoxy how to get things right. If you've read Sherry (which I have not), you may know that there is was a story that went around that Greene's conversion was never sincere, but cynically calculated--as part of his alleged work for British intelligence? I never quite got the story. And while I don't think that it's generally accepted, neither is it considered a looney conspiracy theory--more of an ugly rumor no one wants to talk about.

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I have just been re-reading the chapter Sherry wrote about Greene's spying activities in MI6 under Kim Philby. Interestingly, he used actual events within the organisation as the basis for Our Man in Havana, and Wormold is based on a real man who was using the service to extract money for imaginary agents. Philby, of course, was a Soviet double agent eventually unmasked when he defected to the former USSR.
Sherry suggests that Greene's resignation from MI6 was because he had come to suspect that his friend was a traitor but didn't want to be a part of any activity that might have exposed him.
You may be right about the Vatican being concerned over the possibility that Greene might have been used to spy on them. After all, the British suspected them of being in sympathy with Germany and they probably had one of the best secret services in the world
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Originally Posted by Pompey Bum

Aw, I knew you weren't really black! :)

Actually I still think it's rotten you can't vote. Next time we have one of these, PM me your choice and I'll vote it for you. We can alternate that way until you have enough posts to vote for yourself. Until then, at least we'll both have .5 votes. Seriously. We noobs have to stick together, right?

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Heehee.
Thanks Pompey! That is a nice gesture. I will have to get posting. Also I got a copy of The Power & The Glory and plan to start this weekend.

One of my top 3-4 films of all times. Could watch it once a week and always find new stuff. Favorite line: "I cannot form an opinion" in Viennese accent of course -- Dr. Vinkle.