[crossing-the-line]

Тем временем, я же добралась до третьей книги в трилогии)) Хотя после 'The Honourable Schoolboy' я подумывала временно расстаться с творчеством Ле Карре, но это оказалось крайне ненадолго.
Нет, не за хитроумные сюжетные узелки, а вот за такие моменты я его люблю:

"<...>George, for Heaven's sake wake up, we need you!

Lacon loped off again, plucking at his signet ring as if it were too tight. I need you, thought Smiley, watching him gyrate. I love you, I hate you, I need you. Such apocalyptic statements reminded him of Ann when she had run out of money or love. The heart of the sentence is the subject, he thought. It is not the verb, least of all the object. It is the ego, demanding its feed"(c) - J.Le Carré, 'Smiley's People'