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GALE_OF_THE_WORLD

                                  August 10, 2004


Reading Casino Royale (1953)
by Ian Fleming                                           SPOILERS

     "Bond frowned.  'It's not difficult to get
     a Double O number if you're prepared to
     kill people,' he said.  'That's all the
     meaning it has.  It's nothing to be
     particularly proud of.  Ive got the
     corpses of a Japanese cipher expert
     in New York and a Norwegian double agent         DEADLY_CIPHER
     in Stockholm to thank for being a Double O.
     Probably quite decent people.  They just
     got caught up in the gale of the world
     like that Yugoslav that Tito bumped off. ...'"
                                  -- p. 51

     "'... History is moving pretty quickly these
     days, and the heroes and villains keep
     changing parts.'"    -- p. 110

The John le Carre like stabs at
moral ambiguity are interesting.     Bond's character
                                     transformations
The film version of Bond,            seem a little
is of course more black              unconvincing.
and white.
                                       Wavering from The Cause
   (Or black and black.)               after being tortured,
                                       that makes some sense,
           BRAIN_PULP                  but he returns only
                                       after learning the
                                       details of how "Vesper"
                                       had been manipulated;
                                       as though he didn't
                                       already have personal
                                       reasons for a grudge.
     " 'Surround yourself with
     human beings, my dear
     James.  They are eaisier
     to fight for than              LIGHT_EXPECTATIONS
     principles.' " -- p. 113

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