Pynchon, misc., who respects Le Carre much, we know.

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thank you for the quote from – in my eyes – Le Carré's best, perhaps
coldest novel. (It's dust and color btw. Did you actually type that?)

2016-06-01 11:42 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> "Snow covered the airfield"
> It had come from the north, driven by the night wind, smelling
> of the sea. There it would stay all winter, threadbare on the gray earth,
> an icy, sharp dut: not thawing and freezing, but static like a year without
> seasons. The changing mist, like the smoke of war, would hang over it,
> swallow up now a hangar, now the radar hut, now the machines, release them
> piece by piece, drained of cold, black
> carrion on a white desert....."
>
> If I asked you where in *Gravity's Rainbow* this was, would you stop and
> think
> a moment to try to remember?
>
>
> It is the opening of LeCarre's *The Looking Glass War, *which leads the
> flap copy
> presentation of the novel. Published in 1965.
>
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