Was it prematurely? Certainly that is how No.2 once put it to No.6. "You're young to retire" the woman at Engadine's party told the Prisoner, but then age is relative, and who suggested anything about retiring? Resigning doesn't mean to retire, he stepped down, he handed in his notice. I'm sure that had things worked out differently for the Prisoner, that he had had time to think, to decide what he was going to do next, he would have found work best suited to his skills. I think that the Prisoner did resign prematurely, that something had happened to make the Prisoner angry enough to write that letter of resignation. After all he was angry when he handed in that letter. Shouting and raving about something which had obviously affected him very deeply, and enough to make him throw his entire career away.
'A' thought the Prisoner had something to sell, but then he judges people by his own low standards. Is that what happened to 'A?' That something of great value came into his possession and he wanted to sell it. And then became embroiled with the KGB, who wanted more and more for their money, and towards the end having become suspect, 'A' had to defect behind the Iron Curtain? Never again to return to Britain, but to operate in France!
Perhaps it was simply a matter of conscience, or simply the fact that the Prisoner could no longer stand his job. I sometimes thought that it might have had something to do with Professor Jacob Seltzman After all it was a year after that that the Prisoner returned to London, his mind wrongly housed in the body of the Colonel. A year before, when the Prisoner left that roll of film at the World Cameras photographic shop to be turned into transparencies, and then he turned up at the shop a year later to collect them. And yet that might not have anything to do with it al all, and be completely coincidental!
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