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Mr. Green
Marie Tomlinson is Mr. Green’s secretary and Obi’s coworker. Suspicious that she’s spying on him at first, Obi eventually warms up to her, as she’s very charming and gregarious. Though the narration doesn’t state it explicitly, Obi’s eventual arrest in a sting operation raises the question of whether Marie was indeed spying on him.
Marie Tomlinson Quotes in No Longer at Ease
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Chapter 9
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You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
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Chapter 11
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With a flash of insight Obi remembered his Conrad which he had read for his degree. 'By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded.' That was Mr Kurtz before the heart of darkness got him. Afterwards he had written: 'Exterminate all the brutes.' It was not a close analogy, of course. Kurtz had succumbed to the darkness, Green to the incipient dawn. But their beginning and their end were alike. 'I must write a novel on the tragedy of the Greens of this century,' he thought, pleased with his analysis.
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Marie Tomlinson Quotes in No Longer at Ease
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Chapter 9
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You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
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Chapter 11
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With a flash of insight Obi remembered his Conrad which he had read for his degree. 'By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded.' That was Mr Kurtz before the heart of darkness got him. Afterwards he had written: 'Exterminate all the brutes.' It was not a close analogy, of course. Kurtz had succumbed to the darkness, Green to the incipient dawn. But their beginning and their end were alike. 'I must write a novel on the tragedy of the Greens of this century,' he thought, pleased with his analysis.
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