Sublime

An agent’s inner ear could pick up anxieties more quickly than instructions. Agents also had a flair for infecting one another. I’d twice known sadness to be wafted round a briefing room as if someone were smoking it.

film. Le directeur ne le convoque pas, mais l’invite à passer dans son bureau et le traite désormais en VIP – comme si, avant, c’était une blague, un jeu de rôles qu’on peut, la partie terminée, commenter entre gens de bonne compagnie. Il lui fait signer son exemplaire du Livre des eaux, s’inquiète du souvenir que l’ex-détenu de marque gardera de s

Diogenes,

He’ll die of idealism, of being right when the world is wrong. He’ll die without knowing what she’s powerless to tell him—that he has helped her. That his heart is as good and as worthy as wood.

Tom Hanks, who plays a lawyer, asks his client, who is being accused of being a spy, “Aren’t you worried?” His answer: “Would it help?