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A point I've made before: In John le Carre's Smiley books, there is a security officer known as Fawn. No indication of whether it's a fn, ln, nn or pseudonym. He lives to perform acts of imaginative violence on anyone who steps out of line. His loyalty is total and unconditional, but he only knows one way of expressing it.

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The contrast between the meek, pretty, fragile fawn and the violent thug Fawn is very dreadful and very Le Carre.