Call for the Dead

by John Le Carré

‘Strange to wander in the mist, each is alone. No tree knows his neighbour. Each is alone.’

‘The technique is based on the theory that the interviewer, loving no one as well as himself, will be attracted by his own image. You therefore assume the exact social, temperamental, political and intellectual colour of your inquisitor.’

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

I thought it would be valuable to record the events – even if they did not take place.