[lit-ideas] Re: Death of a Thinker
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:04:15 -0500
At 01:55 PM 2/14/2005, you wrote:
>Paul Stone wrote:
>
>"... I watched a movie called "Eulogy" last night..."
>
>
>Speaking of recently watched movies, last night I finished watching the
>BBC's version of Le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor". I say 'finished watching'
>because it is a mini-series that runs almost five hours in total and it took
>me three evenings to get through it. I would highly recommend it,
>especially to Le Carre fans. It is said that Alec Guinness did such a good
>job with the Smiley character that Le Carre couldn't write another Smiley
>story because Guinness 'owned' the character.
>
>The story revolves around the hunt for a mole in the 'Circus', the UK's
>foreign spy service. When the mole is caught, Smiley asks why he turned
>traitor. The mole laughs hysterically and then gives two reasons. The
>first was that the UK was increasingly irrelevant in the world. The second
>was that he hated the U.S. What was noticeably absent was any commitment to
>socialism or communism. Rather, there was the desire or vanity of wanting
>to 'make a difference' along with a shared hatred.
It would have been more fitting if the mole said "after all the highways,
and the trains, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive."
cross-referencing and trying to re-hijack my own thread,
STILL searching for superbowl ads (no, not really),
Paul
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