The Guardian-
“John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89”
John le Carré
Re: John le Carré
One of the greatest writers of dialogue of the 20th Century.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/book ... Obituaries
Bob
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/book ... Obituaries
Bob
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
— L.P. Hartley
— L.P. Hartley
Re: John le Carré
The curse of Canada strikes again. I order One Two Three and one of the stars drops dead. I review The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and the author drops dead.
Better hope I don't start talking about you...
Jim
Better hope I don't start talking about you...
Jim
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Re: John le Carré
From The Spy Who Came In From The Cold:
"What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not. They're just a bunch of seedy squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing "Cowboys and Indians" to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? Yesterday I would have killed Mundt because I thought him evil and an enemy. But not today. Today he is evil and my friend."
"What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not. They're just a bunch of seedy squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing "Cowboys and Indians" to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? Yesterday I would have killed Mundt because I thought him evil and an enemy. But not today. Today he is evil and my friend."