DuPlessis's suspicious death; the doubling of loyalties; "pretended to pretend to pretend to betray"

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texture · 30 April YDAU

When: 30 April YDAU
What: They discuss DuPlessis, who "has now passed away from life. Under circumstances of almost ridiculous suspicion" (Marathe: "An inept burglary and grippe indeed"). Steeply needles Marathe about the endless layering of his loyalties — "you are already tripling, Rémy, aren't you? Or would it be quadrupling" — and Marathe closes the ledger with "… have I merely pretended to pretend to pretend to betray." The parallel case of Rodney "the God" Tine (whether he doubles for Québec out of love for the A.F.R. asset Luria Perec, or triples) is the mirror they both keep returning to.