JOHN LECARRE

 

ENGLISH blokes make good pirates an better spies. They are trained from littlehood to hide their feelings, so they become experts in the art of stealth and simulation. I lived in South Kensington as a neighbour of the big thills Lecarré and Smiley the character created by him meant a real person no fiction for me as a young journalist dispatching chronicles to Madrid. Alec Guiness made a tour the force giving flesh and bone to the heroe of Lecarrés´s novels. I learnbed a lot from the Circus in the pubs of Kings Road and Chealsea. Smiley was a sergeant major grinning at me though in the sentry box. A sentinel of the West the entrance of the British headquaters of Berlin was he?. He did not speak, he crowed going about Point Charly.

But the Cold War is Over, Berlin Wall is fallen. Since 1981 Big Brother is watching you. And all the power for the Israelis. Putin whoi was also a spy in those seems to hace surrendered too.

 We lived in a crystal ball of Internet all is transparent and apparent. That is hard for the British masters of decepcion; they blloody aweful but I loved them. I had a few drinks in the pubs of South Kensignton. Those were the days my dear friends.