To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas, the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. -- Mark Twain
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Nancy Wake
I am fascinated by the women who served in the OSS (the forerunner of the CIA) and the British Special Operations Executive in World War II. Nancy Wake was the "most redoubtable" of SOE agents who operated in France, according to the Economist, and she died last week at 98. Here's her obituary from the Telegraph.
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