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Spy Literature Reflects Our Hidden Desires Says Educator
Jacques Barzun argues in The American Scholar that modern spy fiction and TV thrillers let readers and viewers live out urges to kill in duty and to face danger with clear larger aims. He sees these works as mythic simulations that soothe fears by showing technique overcoming peril.
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