Like you, I find that
the ratio of Missis-
sippians among my cor-
respondents is extra-
aordinarily high. They
are an epistolary lot,
and their distractions
are few. My sampling,
moreover, reinforces a
belief in constancy as
an aspect of their na-
ture, unlike their cav-
alier cousins of the
seaboard, so whimsical-
ly vulnerable to the
trivial and the silly,
in gaudy and impetuous
manifestations of doubt.
You remember, it was his
fanaticism that made Kar-
la vulnerable in Tinker,
Tailor. His secret doubt.
Life in Mississippi, one
could almost conclude,
seems to flow continuous-
ly, as a full time thing.
Is it possible, they'd do
John le Carré
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Knopf, 1974©
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