Absolute Friends by John le Carre

Author:John le Carre
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FIC006000
ISBN: 9780759508699
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2004-01-12T10:00:00+00:00

Does the story end here? For the time being it seems so, for Sasha, volatile as ever, has looked at his watch and, with an exclamation, sprung to his feet.

“Teddy. We must be quick. They will waste no time.”

“To do what?” For now it is Mundy’s turn to lose his way.

“I must seduce you. Secure you for the cause of Peace and Progress. Not all at once, but from me a compelling overture, and from you a less than convincing rejection of my advances. And tonight you will be morose—it is arranged, yes?”

Yes, tonight it is arranged that I will be morose.

“And a little drunk?”

Also a little drunk, though not as drunk as I may appear.

Sasha takes the tape recorder from his pocket, then a fresh cassette, which he brandishes in Mundy’s face in warning. He slips the cassette into its housing, presses the start button, replaces the recorder in an inside pocket of his jacket, puts on his beret and with it the impassive scowl of the apparatchik who has submitted his temperamental personality to the Party’s will. His voice hardens and acquires a hectoring edge.

“Teddy, I will ask you this frankly. Are you telling me you have turned your back on everything we fought for together in Berlin? That you are leaving the revolution to take care of itself—undermining it even? That you are in love with your bank account, and your sweet little house, and you have put your social awareness to sleep? Okay: we didn’t change the world that time! We were kids, playing soldiers of the revolution. But what about joining the real revolution? Your country’s fallen under the spell of a fascistic warmonger—but you don’t give a fuck! You are the paid lackey of an antidemocratic propaganda machine—and you don’t give a fuck! Is this what you will be telling your petit bourgeois when it grows up? I didn’t give a fuck? We need you, Teddy! It makes me sick to watch you, for two nights already, how you flirt with us, show us one tit then put it back in your shirt, then show us the other one! Smirking while you sit there with the fence halfway up your arse!” His voice drops. “You know something else, Teddy? Shall I tell you something in very great confidence, just you and me and the rabbits? We’re not proud. We understand human nature. When it’s necessary we even pay people to listen to the voice of their political conscience.”

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