"The State is a dream, too, a symbol of nothing at all, an emptiness, a mind without a body, a game played with clouds in the sky. But States make war, don’t they, and imprison people?"
John le Carré

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 3, “Elsa Fennan” (p. 21)

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