That’s a thought …
I’ve got the radio on: or, at least, Radio 4 is on, on my digital TV.
The Today programme, so you know.
Of course, they’ve had a brief item on Le Carré’s latest work, A Legacy of Spies: the most recent, and possibly the last, to feature Le Carré’s most famous character.
Smiley …
They made a rather good point.
That Bond? Is not a spy: he’s really a hired gun, an assassin.
Smiley, on the other, is something Britain is rather good at.
Being not a spy … but a wizard …
I’m not sure if they have a thought, there, or not: but the fact the character’s an old fashioned sort of spy, a wizard in the sense that his powers come from knowing that one extra fact?
Certainly made sense to me.
And matches very well wit Alec Guinness’s other well known role: of a wizard with a magic sword* …
~≈Ê≈~
