RIP, the Dostoevsky of Cold War thrillers. He showed how enemies can end up mirroring one another—and the truth of Nietzsche’s warning, that when you long gaze into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine @philosophybites
14 Dec 2020
“le Carré’s true subject is not spying,” ⁦⁦wrote @fromTGA⁩ ⁩ “It is the endlessly deceptive maze of human relations: the betrayal that is a kind of love, the lie that is a sort of truth, good men serving bad causes and bad men serving good.” nytimes.com/2020/12/13/books…

Dec 14, 2020 · 12:39 PM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Coincidentally, I am in the middle of A Small Town in Germany. I never read it and it’s a Dell edition originally priced at $1.25, which I picked up at a used book store. Marked up to two bucks I think.