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Colonel Felix Dobell is an American Intelligence officer who has an office next door to the May of Teck Club. Felix is an associate of Nicholas’s, though they don’t have much in common. He lives in fear of his wife, Gareth—which is a problem when Gareth decides to visit London to give a talk at the May of Teck Club, seeing as Felix is presently having an affair with Selina, a stunningly beautiful May of Teck girl. Unbeknownst to Felix, Selina considers him one of her “weak men”—someone Selina doesn’t respect and only uses for sex and to leverage his weaknesses against him for her own benefit.
Colonel Felix Dobell Quotes in The Girls of Slender Means
The The Girls of Slender Means quotes below are all either spoken by Colonel Felix Dobell or refer to Colonel Felix Dobell. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 Quotes
It was in fact a misunderstanding of Nicholas—[Jane] vaguely thought of him as a more attractive Rudi Bittesch—to imagine he would receive more pleasure and reassurance from a literary girl than simply a girl. It was the girl in Jane that had moved him to kiss her at the party; she might have gone further with Nicholas without her literary leanings. That was a mistake she continued to make in her relations with men, inferring from her own preference for men of books and literature their preference for women of the same business. And it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
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‘Were you in the house at the time?’ said Felix.
‘I was,’ said Greggie. ‘I was in bed. Next moment I was on the floor. All the windows were broken. And it’s my suspicion there was a second bomb that didn’t go off. I’m almost sure I saw it drop as I picked myself up off the floor. But the disposal squad found only the one bomb and removed it. Anyway, if there’s a second it must have died a natural death by now. I’m talking about the year 1942.’
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Colonel Felix Dobell Quotes in The Girls of Slender Means
The The Girls of Slender Means quotes below are all either spoken by Colonel Felix Dobell or refer to Colonel Felix Dobell. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 Quotes
It was in fact a misunderstanding of Nicholas—[Jane] vaguely thought of him as a more attractive Rudi Bittesch—to imagine he would receive more pleasure and reassurance from a literary girl than simply a girl. It was the girl in Jane that had moved him to kiss her at the party; she might have gone further with Nicholas without her literary leanings. That was a mistake she continued to make in her relations with men, inferring from her own preference for men of books and literature their preference for women of the same business. And it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
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‘Were you in the house at the time?’ said Felix.
‘I was,’ said Greggie. ‘I was in bed. Next moment I was on the floor. All the windows were broken. And it’s my suspicion there was a second bomb that didn’t go off. I’m almost sure I saw it drop as I picked myself up off the floor. But the disposal squad found only the one bomb and removed it. Anyway, if there’s a second it must have died a natural death by now. I’m talking about the year 1942.’
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