Life imitating art: Le Carre

[Monte Davis]

Recalling our discussion last fall of "legend" in BE as "cover story" or
"false biography":

"...by an extraordinary sleight of hand, le Carré contrived to make a
fictive world seem tangible and real, what he has called 'a spook world
better suited to my needs'. So potent was his art that former colleagues in
MI5 and MI6 began to adopt his invented lingo of 'lamplighters', 'moles',
'ferrets', 'pavement artists', and the rest. Unconsciously, no doubt, his
devoted readers became complicit with his fabrications."

We might want to roll that last sentence around our brains a few times.

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http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/mar/09/john-le-carre-smiley-face-man-of-mystery-profile
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