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He watched the Tempelhof runway sink beneath him.
Leamas was not a reflective man and not a particularly philosophical one. He knew he was written off – it was a fact of life which he would henceforth live with, as a man must live with cancer or imprisonment. He knew there was no kind of preparation which could have bridged the gap between then and now. He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary. He’d lasted longer than most; now he was beaten. It is said a dog lives as long as its teeth; metaphorically, Leamas’ teeth had been drawn; and it was Mundt who had drawn them.