“George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim
Prideaux to Jim while they were at Oxford] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half.
Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to
be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly
tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built
by the same firm that did Stonehenge”
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