BEER Ch. 6, 53-57: knotting into March Kelleher

[Thomas Eckhardt]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 11:32:21 +0100
  jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got only the 2nd edition of the OED (1989), compact 
>(1996), and
> that doesn't have
> the Le Carré meaning; if you look it up in the 
>Wiktionary
> (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/legend) it's there under 
>(7): A
> fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated 
>documents and records;
> a cover story. I doubt it's to be found out there in 
>that sense before
> Le Carré.

Thanks!

> But as I said before, that meaning doesn't make sense 
>here on p. 53, in my eyes.

Yes, by now I tend to agree. As Monte said, we do not need 
a remote meaning of 'legend' to suspect hashslingerz of 
dark activities. And as Michael (I believe) said, March 
being Ice's mother-in-law is not part of any cover story, 
it's just a fact.

Thomas
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