The Professor of Truth
“I ASKED FOR THE THIRD time. “What brought so many of you there so quickly? You say you got there on day three but you weren’t the first. Nobody knew for sure it was a bomb at that point. It was what we feared, it was what we felt, but nobody knew.”
For a second—no longer or shorter than any other second—Nilsen’s face changed. It happened and was over. I couldn’t even say what the change was, but I saw it, and I realised we had entered a new zone.
“We knew,” Nilsen said. “That’s why we came. We ...knew because of the flight time. Air traffic control lost the signal thirty-eight minutes in. As soon as we had that information we knew, in all probability, it was a bomb.”
He put his hand to his mouth, as if he’d let something slip out by accident. But by now I was pretty sure that nothing he did was by accident. He was signalling to me. Just the two of us in that kitchen in the middle of a snowstorm, and the intelligence part of him still found some things impossible to say out loud.MoreLess
For a second—no longer or shorter than any other second—Nilsen’s face changed. It happened and was over. I couldn’t even say what the change was, but I saw it, and I realised we had entered a new zone.
“We knew,” Nilsen said. “That’s why we came. We ...knew because of the flight time. Air traffic control lost the signal thirty-eight minutes in. As soon as we had that information we knew, in all probability, it was a bomb.”
He put his hand to his mouth, as if he’d let something slip out by accident. But by now I was pretty sure that nothing he did was by accident. He was signalling to me. Just the two of us in that kitchen in the middle of a snowstorm, and the intelligence part of him still found some things impossible to say out loud.MoreLess
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