Entry 15 · Book chapter 16
October 6 1943
Arriving in a ruined, waterless Naples, the section settles into a grand requisitioned palazzo on the Riviera di Chiaia.
Reflections
The psychology of informants
Lewis compares an informant to a duckling imprinting on the first sympathetic listener: driven by a strange, exclusive loyalty to one master rather than by payment, and never transferring allegiance once given.
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