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Posted by Auricle (A) on January 14, 2005 at 11:35:11

In Reply to: Absolutely fine. With its own vocabulary invented for the book posted by Duilawyer on January 14, 2005 at 07:37:32:

Smiley was the agent who tried to talk Burton over the wall in the denoument. Rupert Cusack played Smiley in the movie. He had a long way to go at that time.

le Carre wrote great stuff. For fiction. As he said about himself
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The answer is that nothing that I write is authentic. It is the stuff of dreams, not reality. Yet I am treated by the media as though I wrote espionage handbooks. I am regarded as a sage on every spy case from the double-agent Judas to your wretched Mr. Aldrich Ames.

And to a point I am flattered that my fabulations are taken so seriously. Yet I also despise myself in the fake role of guru, since it bears no relation to who I am or what I do. Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.

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