NP except circuitously; a metaphor branches; goes mainstream

[rich]

whose head is always referred to publicly as "C" if you're into the brevity
thing

and let us not forget the guy who puts into motion the whole tinker tailor
project is a guy called Control

rich

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

> Circus is another word for what in the U.S. is often called a traffic
> circle.  Le Carre's Circus is named for Cambridge Circus in Central London,
> fictional location of MI6.
>
> P
>
>
>
> On 1/15/2012 8:46 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> LeCarre's name for the Intelligence Agency behind it all is "The Circus".
>> Pynchon, others,
>> use the concept to describe the crazy acrobatics and performances of
>> (certain)
>> social realities. [ I cannot offhand remember an exact use of circus in
>> GR or ATD,
>> and am not going to check but I do remember Carnivale, an inexact
>> analogue is
>> in AtD.] In Confidence Men, Ron Suskind uses it to describe the 2008
>> campaign, "What
>> amazed Obama was how big the whole circus had become, and how fast."
>> [sic].
>>
>> I find in an article on Apple, 'the retail circus" .
>>
>> Below is the NYTimes today:
>> "Foreclosure Auctions Show Raw Form of Capitalism
>> 16 hours ago ... Foreclosure auctions have grown into a scruffy
>> economic circus where bargain hunters from around the world have
>> scooped up houses often sold ...
>> January 15, 2012 - By KEN BELSON - U.S."
>>
>> And, to stick the landing, I ran the word 'circus' through Google Trends--
>> a mapping of use and voila (and interesting, imho)
>> http://www.google.com/trends/?**q=circus&ctab=0<http://www.google.com/trends/?q=circus&ctab=0>
>>
>> Send in the clowns.
>>
>>
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