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Friday, March 26, 2010

LeCarre and LeGrice

--- By JLS
----- for the GC

WHEN YOU RESEARCH FOR GRICE ONLINE you are bound to encounter LeGrice, a Brit film maker. Ditto, when you research for cheap authors cited by Leech and Short in the chapter "Conversation in the novel" you are bound to meet LeCarre.

Leech/Short cite from his "The Spy who Came in from the Cold"

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ch. 25:

LIZ. But what about Fiedler? Don't you feel anything for him? Do you think the death of this East German innocent that you have contributed was justified?
LEAMAS: This is war.

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Leech/Short describe Leamas's reply as

"a further example of a statement which is self-evidently untrue. Here, Leamas breaks NOT only the maxim of Qualitas, but also the maxim of Relatio. But on a deeper level, via the maxim of relation, we wee that he DOES answer it. By saying that there is a where then there is not and also when it is NOT relevant he implicates that having feelings for victims in espionage is, as in war, inappropriate."

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