‘That is just the point. It seems that they are correspondents for a Moscow paper, and they want some articles on English politics. If we go to them at once they may commission you to write the articles.’ ‘Me? But I don’t know anything about politics.’ ‘Merde! Neither do they. Who does know anything about politics? It’s easy. All you have to do is to copy it out of the English papers. Isn’t there a Paris Daily Mail? Copy it from that.’ ‘But the Daily Mail is a Conservative paper. They loathe the Communists.’ ‘Well, say the opposite of what the Daily Mail says, then you can’t be wrong. We
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