Quarrel and Quarrel Jr...
In the Spring of 1964 several of us qualified for the State Track Meet in Gainesville. The first night, our coach took us to see a movie. It was “From Russia With Love”.
There were college students lined up around the block to get in. Fortunately the line moved fast. I had never seen or even heard of a Bond Film but one of our classmates had read the book and told us a lot of the plot.
Also saw several Corvettes parked on the block. Probably also the first ones I had ever seen tho I had read a lot about them.
>>It is no wonder James Bond, in his first appearance in “Dr. No” uttered the line “my name is Bond, James Bond”.<<
He did not say that. The lady at his blackjack table said, “I admire your luck, Mr....?” To which be replies, “Bond. James Bond.”
Worthwhile to buy the original Bond books. The sequence of stories is different from that of the movies. And many of the movie versions have very different plots and settings. The original Moonraker book is almost completely different from the movie. About the only thing in common are rockets and the name of the main villain ‘Drax’.
Fleming had dealings with the Soviet government during WWII, knew what they were capable of, and hated them. In the original books Soviet intelligence was most often the bad guys. SPECTRE did not appear until much later chronologically speaking in contrast to appearing immediately in the first movie ‘Dr. No’. Decades before the term “politically correct” was coined the movie producers seemed to have changed plots to make SPECTRE the ever-appearing bad guys instead of SMERSH, perhaps to make the movies less inflammatory than the books and, therefore, more sellable during the Cold War.
We’ve been to Jamaica multiple times. Wonderful place, gorgeous beaches, fantastic food, friendly people, and a damn near perfect climate.
The best thing that could happen would be the return of British rule.
Check that, May is running Britain.
Oh well.
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John Donne.