The English spy novelist Len Deighton died earlier this year and since he did so at the age of 97 it’s not remarkable that he would do so. He kept putting it off, I guess, before finally getting around to it. He wrote good books, but what I want to relate is how he refused a knighthood in the most badass way possible by saying: “To allow someone to give you a knighthood is to admit that there is someone who is allowed to appraise you on a scale which you are going to agree with. The audacity of it!”
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honestly. the nerve of some people.
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When I was a teenager I read a lot of his books - fiction, mostly. He had an interesting pair of books - "Fighter" (non-fiction) and "Bomber" (fiction). Both were about the European Theater air war in World War II. "Bomber" was a particularly brutal anti-war novel. Everyone that you came to care about died, sometimes in circumstances that had nothing to do with actual combat.
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