the other cops, even dudley smith, the corrupt cop, will come to view it as wrong.ured road to self—knowledge. but even if you say you wrote this book in the mindset of 1942, and you refuse to move that mindset to today, you as, as you know, an important literary voice in america today surely have a view as to whether there is a justification for things like the patriot act, that we saw in the bush administration, or indeed the mass surveillance that... no, i don't. no? no, i do not. it does not interest me. i do not acknowledge anything outside the history that i write about. and it is that very quality, the fact that i deny the world today, do not use a cellphone, have never logged onto a computer in my life. that gives these books their power. and it gives these books their immediacy, and the feeling that they were written in that time period. and yet, i am here. i'm 66 years old. i will die in sa years, slightly after my 100th birthday. but i will have a lot of books that will stand. and they will stand because they were written in history's fire. will you, in t