![]() ![]() ![]() The Lipstick Gun (the "Kiss of Death"): This was created by the KGB (the intelligence agency for the Soviet Union during the Cold War in case you're clueless.) There's something spooky about looking into what you think is a lipstick and instead seeing a little hole from which a bullet might fire. Main Themes: Children's Lives, Espionage, Museums Excerpt: "WHO KNEW?" GILDA JOYCE HIGHLIGHTS, FAVORITES & "JUST PLAIN WEIRD" OBJECTS AT THE INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM It reminds me of walking through a graveyard: it's beautiful and interesting but also lonely and a little spooky too. So many buildings and monuments in this city are engraved with poetic messages that make you think about the suffering of people in times past. She pulled out her reporter's notebook and jotted a note to capture the feeling: Gilda wasn't quite sure what the words meant, but she liked the haunting, poignant sound of the words- the eerie feeling of reading a poem while being lowered into the ground. "I sit by the restless all the dark night- some are so young Some suffer so much- I recall the experience sweet and sad." She was also intrigued by a Walt Whitman poem engraved into the granite wall encircling the escalator. ![]() Gilda didn't respond she focused on the quelling a feeling of vertigo as she looked down into the underground station. ![]() Main Themes: Children's Lives, Espionage, Museums Excerpt: Caitlin stood behind Gilda on the long, steep escalator descending into the Dupont Circle Metro Station. ![]()
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