If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www. cia. gov and click "Apply Now. " For me it was much more clandestine.
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret. . . a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.