Remember Mischa and Grischa, those Russian doubles in Pynchon?

[Mark Kohut]

just a little timeless doubles story.

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:50 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Those russian doubles were brothers, in life, and in bond, octopussy,
> actors in hamlet (1976), G&R, is think. G&R are dead came 10 years
> before not after.
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 7:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > in his The Pigeon Tunnel, Le Carre writes of his first trip to Russia in
> > 1987, after
> > the end of the Soviet Union. "if we let you in, we'll let anyone in",
> said
> > some Authority.
> >
> > He speaks of the two, middle-aged, balding, fat KGB guys sentenced to
> > follow him everywhere
> > at a distance of not many years.
> >
> > He called them Muttski and Jeffski.
> >
> > (terrif story of him leaving a dead drunk journalist's apartment very
> late,
> > he too drunk, in the blackest,
> > quietest section of the city with no idea  where his hotel was. He saw
> them
> > on a park bench, evidently taking turns
> > dozing. He went over, said the name of the hotel loud and louder, and
> that
> > he was drunk, lifted his arms elbows out,
> > a passively harmless yet vulnerable request and the three of them walked
> > back to his hotel.
> >
> > PS. BTW, THIS book is a perfect audio book on a long ride, for me. (I
> can't
> > follow well many unread books on audio while driving,
> > but rereads when one already knows the story work to hear every word
> BUT,
> > this book is sketches and conversations, so to speak and Le Carre
> > reads it himself and "he do the police in different voices" as an
> American
> > woman said of Dickens in America (made almost eternal
> > by Eliot in The Wasteland) and Le Carre is a GREAT mimic, simply great,
> > creating a character right out of his voice,
> > maybe as good as Philip Roth (I have heard).
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