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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] I've been reading the few Bond books I have again. They're all by Ian Fleming; I won't read any of the ones not by him. MAN, was he a fucking BASTARD! I just finished "Goldfinger" & check out some of the shit he has to say on various groups. Granted, these were written in the 50s & early 60s, but still. [b]on Jews:[/b] [i][re: Goldfinger, a background description][/i] "You won't believe it, but he's a Britisher. Domiciled in Nassau. You'd think he'd be a Jew from the name, but he doesn't look it. We're restricted at the Floridiana. Wouldn't have got in if he had been." [b]on short men:[/b] [i][Bond's thoughts, re: Goldfinger's physical description][/i] "Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big--bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world. And what about a misshapen short man with red hair and a bizarre face? That might add up to a really formidable misfit. One could certainly feel the repressions." [b]on Koreans:[/b] [i][Goldfinger, re: why he has a totally Korean staff][/i] "'Mr. Bond--' Goldfinger snapped his fingers forthe two servants-- 'it happens that I am a rich man, a very rich man, and the richer the man the more he needs protection. The ordinary bodyguard or detective is usually a retired policeman. Such men are valueless. Their reactions are slow, their methods old-fashioned, and they are open to bribery. Moreover, they have a respect for human life. That is no good if I wish to stay alive. The Koreans have no such feelings. That is why the apanese employed them as guards for their prison camps during the war. They are the cruellest, most ruthless people in the world. My own staff are hand picked for these qualities. They have served me well. I have no complaints. Nor have they. They are well paid and well fed and housed. When they want women, street women are brought down from London, well remunerated for their services and sent back. The women are not much to look at, but they are white and that is all the Koreans ask--to submit the white race to the grossest indignities. There are sometimes accidents but--' the pale eyes gazed blankly down the table-- 'money is an effective winding-sheet.'" [b]on gays & women's rights:[/b] "Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterton was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and 'sex equality.' As a result of fifty years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused, not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits--barren and full of frustrations, the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. He was sorry for them, but he had no time for them." Ah, & for those who've wondered, I list below the recipe from "Casino Royale" for the "classic Bond martini" developed by Bond himself: [i]Three measures of Gordon's gin One measure of vodka, preferably grain Half a measure of Kina Lillet Shake very well until ice-cold, then serve in a deep champagne goblet with a slice of lemon peel.[/i] Bond tells Felix Leiter that "when I'm--er--concentrating, I never have more than one drink before dinner. But i do like that one to be very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad This drink's my own invention. I'm going to patent it when I can think of a name. Later, he names it the "Vesper" after Vesper Lynd, the girl in the book, because "it's very appropriate to the violet hour when my cocktail will now be drunk all over the world." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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