Oh, that's a hard question. I don't think I know enough Cold War espionage stories to officially declare one THE GREATEST.
I think at this point there's simply nothing for you to do but read Billabong! Otherwise it may drop out of your mind entirely and you might never read it at all.
Jackson is clearly trying to be light-hearted and funny about the whole thing, too, which actually just makes the fury more intense and smoldering. "I was not bitter about being a faculty wife, very much, although it did occur to me once or twice that young men who were apt to go on and become college teachers someday ought to be required to show some clearly distinguishable characteristic, or perhaps even wear some large kind of identifying badge, for the protection of innocent young girls who might in that case go on to be the contented wives of furniture repairmen or disc jockeys or even car salesman. The way it is now, almost any girl is apt to find herself hardening slowly into a faculty wife when all she actually thought she was doing was just getting married."
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Date: 2019-03-07 01:58 am (UTC)I think at this point there's simply nothing for you to do but read Billabong! Otherwise it may drop out of your mind entirely and you might never read it at all.
Jackson is clearly trying to be light-hearted and funny about the whole thing, too, which actually just makes the fury more intense and smoldering. "I was not bitter about being a faculty wife, very much, although it did occur to me once or twice that young men who were apt to go on and become college teachers someday ought to be required to show some clearly distinguishable characteristic, or perhaps even wear some large kind of identifying badge, for the protection of innocent young girls who might in that case go on to be the contented wives of furniture repairmen or disc jockeys or even car salesman. The way it is now, almost any girl is apt to find herself hardening slowly into a faculty wife when all she actually thought she was doing was just getting married."