I’d had a short, troubled sleep. While I don’t need much rest, I needed more than I’d got. I’d been bombarded with film images, struggling with a blackmail operation just like the evil SPECTRE organization in the James Bond movies. The faces of the company chairmen, whoever they were, didn’t appear in my dream. But I could hear their perverted, growling voices as they made death threats to their victims. Sofya appeared as a diabolical woman based on the role played by Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love. The wife of composer Kurt Weill in real life, in the film she played a Russian agent working for SPECTRE. Daggers would pop out of the tips of her shoes, and she fought to the death with Bond. Lenya’s homeliness didn’t really mesh with Sofya’s beauty, but so be it, it was just a dream. Sofya would have been much more appropriate as Pussy Galore, the character played by Honor Blackman in Goldfinger, or perhaps as Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball. Anyway, in my dream Lotte Lenya-Sofya and Süleyman, played by whomever, were standing in front of their boss, dejected at having failed to recover Buse’s letters and photos.
