That's the trouble with spies, you know. It's not that they carry information. It's that they carry fragmentary information, out of context, misconstrued, badly interpreted, incomplete, and misread. (Samuel R. Delany)

That's the trouble with spies, you know. It's not that they carry information. It's that they carry fragmentary information, out of context, misconstrued, badly interpreted, incomplete, and misread.

Samuel R. Delany

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