Reflections on Espionage: The Question of Cupcake by John Hollander

Author:John Hollander [Hollander, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780689107047
Google: mUsiAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1976-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

5/11

The results of the last few days will surely

Bring Lyrebird no joy, but that cannot be helped.

Political deteriorations have

Brought other structures down as well, the fabric

Of many walls has been ripped, and our cover

Clawed away at in many places—one of

Our banks, as you will have discovered, is in

Danger, and among the agents, even Kidd

Is losing his credit rapidly, and may

Have to be shifted into something harmless.

And I? Despair, as you know, for the future

Of Project Orange—it still goes so slowly—

And, even worse, growing lack of conviction

About its value for the work: Their Project

White is so protean an enterprise that

Our bits and pieces of counter-strategy

Can only chip away at bits of what They

Are constantly at work at. It is almost

As if that operation of Theirs were part

Of nature, that in trying to cope with it,

Building and unbuilding our sorry models,

Annihilating the appearances to

Reach the workings behind them, we were engaged

In something that we had not contracted for.

White is too large a matter to be thought of

As an operation, even, And my poor

Little Orange now, hopefully projected?

—You must feel some of this unease yourself At

Least, ail is untroubled at the Museum,

A shipment of bronzes arrives tomorrow.

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