10 Works found in Guy Burgess
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Jean-Paul Sartre had been a man who was difficult on the eye, Guy recalls. So difficult that one might have supposed he’d sprung from an Institute of Advanced Education in Birmingham or Hull, not the École Normale. However, he was correct about people — about the general characteristics of other people — and Guy has lived accordingly for the last several years.
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Guy Burgess at the end of his May Ball: "I'm completely fucking desolate." So what happened in the few minutes after the river jump?
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Five gentlemen once loved by Guy Burgess, Esq.
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Everyone in England worth saving by Naraht for highfantastical
Cambridge Spies, Cambridge Five RPF, 20th Century CE Political RPF, Classical Music RPF
13 Dec 2010
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In 1963 Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten are on their first concert tour of the USSR. Their visit to exiled spy Guy Burgess is not such a triumphant success.
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Penitent Impenitent by Naraht for highfantastical
Cambridge Spies, Cambridge Five RPF, 20th Century CE Political RPF
25 Nov 2010
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Veiled half-truths are the chosen habitat of the spy; Anthony Blunt's reticence was natural, and of far earlier date.
(Or, five things Anthony Blunt never said and one thing that he did say.)
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Guy Burgess suffers the after-effects of a lycanthropic transformation.
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Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt discuss friendship and test its definition. A little smut, a little substance.
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A year after Guy's death, Anthony remembers his friend - and their folly - as best he can.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. -- attributed to Xenophon. Anthony Blunt, Julian Bell, and Guy Burgess, in various permutations.
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