From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 4:18:01 PM UTC-6, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
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   > > On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:05:23 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > > There was a French author, Gerard de Villiers, who wrote a long series   
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   > of spy novels with the main character Malko Linge, which were about as   
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   > popular as Ian Fleming/James Bond outside of English-speaking countries.   
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   > So you could say that the fictional spy Malko Linge would be the French   
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   > equivalent of James Bond.   
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   > > > So if you wanted to call him something like that....   
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   > > That would be pretty cool if she knew he was a spy from the beginning.   
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   > It would.  But um, since those stories were written in the 1900s and my   
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   > story takes place around 1700...   
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   > > Otherwise I suppose a descriptive term would work... Have her think "tall   
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   > > dark and handsome" think "Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome" call him   
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   > > "Handsome" or "Mr. Handsome."   
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   > Mr.  Incredibly Average in Every Way?   
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   > Mr. You Look So Different Everytime I See You That It Takes Me Forever   
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   > to Be Certain It's Really You?   
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   I feel your pain. :)   
      
   Does she have a classical education?  Might there be a "popular culture"   
   everyman figure or a god that is known to disguise himself or herself to   
   interact with normal people to test them?  Folk tales where a beggar is really   
   a magical being that rewards    
   the kindhearted?   
      
   -Julie   
      
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