Comments on: A Spy Thriller to the Wise (Review: Agent Zigzag)

By: James Beck

James Beck — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:53:26 +0000

Andrei - hello... I 'heard' you were or are understandably a technophobe-?-so it's good you've deigned to touch such filth and post here... presumably it came thru a dirty-key board?! And not miraculously... that's what I mean by having inevitably to touch filth... you've met Paris Hilton... is my characterization correct. Have you ever seen Joe Camel of the past a cartoon character used for selling tobacco in our 'united' states? If you have seen him... doesn't Paris look like a Josephine Camel. I still find her attractive tough. Young, svelt, naturally blonde-?-...fashionable... wealthy - wanting to be loved... i wouldn't throw her out of bed for eating crackers. Would you? I wouldn't be in bed with her in the first place, unless drunk - and then not much would happen anyway. So she'd probably throw me OUT... ? Sorry - it's not that you look like Joe Camel! really, no - it's me, not you Paris. What-?-no turn off the video... i'll sue. Wait I've got a rolling pin. Remember what you used to hit us over the head with in better times/!? I could do some MASHING...there. There's a fire hydrant outside what the heck... I could film that? OR we COULD Be. ? No? Maybe it IS too soon? (Humor...) no> reality check: They wuv me. i wuv 'them'. i'm a writer... worse, or better - a philosopher. I don't know who that was exactly -what character- imposing above. must be the next .................... story. Wow Andrei posted here. wow.

By: NGPM

NGPM — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:36:46 +0000

@3: I was thinking the same thing.

Beautiful, beautiful prose, Mr. Navrozov. Every time you spill your ink bottle I get a whole new set of citations on my "Favourite Quotes" page.

By: Andrei Navrozov

Andrei Navrozov — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:48:05 +0000

Andrei Navrozov replies to J.C. Murphy:

Christopher Storey, with whom I regret not having been in touch in the intervening years, is that One Man in a Million without whom civilisation founders. Stubbornly, some would say maniacally, he has kept his Soviet Analyst going in the teeth of the perestroikas, the political global warmings and the Kremlin Scotch-drinking parties the West's mainstream media have been foisting on the unsuspecting over the last 20-30 years. Apart from this, I am most grateful to you for having taken the trouble to locate my books. All good wishes, and stay tuned to Chronicles.

By: John Chris Murphy

John Chris Murphy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:54:57 +0000

A related question: I recently bought and read your 1991 essay The Coming Order. I think I paid $45.00 on Amazon. Worth every penny. Also, Gingerbread Race. Excellent also. But how did you find out about the 12% of Afganistan which was not evacuated by the Russian/Soviet forces?, and what makes this land strategically important. Also, are you familiar with Christopher Storey, who publishes Soviet Analyst, and several other circulars, and books. He claimed, several years ago, that the Russian/Soviets took numerous (four thousand or more) Afgani children, boys of 8 to 10 years of age with them when they left. Further, Storey thinks these have been trained for use in Mid-Eastern theater of war.
Best wishes, I always appreciate your Chroncles essays.
J.C. Murphy

By: G.S.

G.S. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:46:20 +0000

Wonderful writing as usual, in Mr. Navrozov's unique voice.

I'm not sure what's funnier -- the joke, or the Dutch response to it.

By: James Beck

James Beck — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:28:07 +0000

"of helpless amateurs who tried to hide their ignorance as if it were stolen silver." -A.N. ... The average person's thrownness as it were regardless into which of any culture combined inevitably with the swinish streak in human nature produces the very familiar incompetent, sadistic, snob who is usually also without a single gift. The blessed of these have one gift though most are unaware of it. Those with a couple or more gifts are rare and would never want to be a spy. If they do want to be a spy they are usually sick, or somehow talented if not too bright: "My name is Boob, James Boob."

By: J.

J. — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:32:30 +0000

Thank you, Andrei Andreievich, I enjoyed reading your excellent review.

I still have a question though.

All the now well-documented evidence of the incompetence of Abwehr notwithstanding, I do not see here a relation to CIA's present effectiveness. (Unless of course you admit the old joke about the black parachutist - which I heard first in 1979 from an emigrant from Leningrad - as hard evidence.)

Indeed, keep in mind all the notorious "color revolutions" and the like across the former Soviet world. Etc. ... One can only imagine the depth of present CIA infiltration of Serbia; their operatives must be having a picnic in Belgrade. Same thing happened in Yeltsin's Russia, though one would hope Putin has managed to clean that up a bit since.