Pynchon has seen the movie too, I bet

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/13/2012 11:50 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> the new Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.........I say superb but
> I just want to quote one line--there are a couple---that resonate
> as stated with much of pynchon's vision, I say........
> And, before the line, I will remind how much spying is a leitmotif
> in P's works.....
> Okay. two lines.....in opening "Trust no one"....not so unique....
> later, "no one is genuine anymore"...................
> THAT, I suggest, is one notion TRP finds largely true---he pushes for
> exceptions that reveal---of our modern world........

It was always necessary to have a false passport hidden away, in case a 
quick escape became necessary.

Distrust of fellow espionage practitioners was practically ubiquitous in 
cold war spy novels from the early sixties on.

Early examples:

leCarre's The Spy who came in from the Cold (63)

Len Deigton's The Ipcress File (62)

They don't write'em like that anymore.

P

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