Literary criticism and counterintelligence

[rich]

sums it up I think


*Roy Bland <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726600/>*: You're an educated sort
of a swine. "An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing
views and still function." Who dreamed that one up?
*George Smiley <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027/>*: Scott Fitzgerald.
*Roy Bland <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726600/>*: Well, Fitzgerald knew a
thing or two. And I'm definitely functioning. As a good socialist, I'm
going where the money is; as a good capitalist, I'm sticking with the
revolution, because if you can't beat it, spy on it! Don't look like that,
George. It's the name of the game these days. You scratch my conscience,
I'll drive your Jag, right?

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:12 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sisman's new bio of Le Carre is odd in that  the most interesting
> character in the book is Le Carre's globe-trotting con man, gambler, crook
> par excellence father, Ronnie.
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Along the same lines from the Slow Learner intro (apologies to
>> paleo-Listers for oft-trodden ground). In discussion of the imperial /
>> colonial / espionage contexts of "Under the Rose":
>>
>> "I had grown up reading a lot of spy fiction, novels of intrigue, notably
>> those of John Buchan.ohn Buchan...  E. Phillips Oppenheim, Helen MacInnes,
>> Geoffrey Household, and many others as well. The net effect was eventually
>> to build up in my uncritical brain a peculiar shadowy vision of the history
>> preceding the two world wars. Political decision-making and official
>> documents did not figure in this nearly as much as lurking, spying, false
>> identities, psychological games... Readers may also feel shorted because
>> of how, more than anyone, the masterful John le Carré has upped the ante
>> for the whole genre."
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Of course, Angleton served with the OSS in London during WW II. Dulles
>>> is mentioned in GR, Angleton I believe is not.
>>>
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
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