AtD: "ICH BIN EIN BERLINER!" (626)

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 23, 2007 4:45 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/23/07, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Jack's role model wasn't any character from fiction; it was a real
> > life father, the exceedingly rapacious Joe Kennedy.
>
> See ...
>
> Willman, Skip.  "The Kennedys, Fleming, and Cuba:
>    Bond's Foreign Policy."  Ian Fleming and James Bond:
>    The Cultural Politics of 007. Ed. Edward P. Comentale,
>    Stephen Watt and Skip Willman. Bloomington:
>    Indiana UP, 2005.  178-201.
>
> E.g., ...
>
> "... JFK's fixation on covert action to oust Castro was constituted
> through an underlying fantasy shaped in part by the work of Fleming."
> (p. 179)
>
> "... Fleming represented for the Kennedys what Jacques Lacan called
> 'the subject supposed to know' ..." (p. 180)
>
> "Bond represented an ideal ego for both brothers." (ibid.)

Maybe Jack liked James cuz James was so much like Joe.

P.




>
> U.s.w., et soforthiam ...
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=MzWajYxgfOkC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180
>
> http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=22165
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0512&msg=99428
>
> And see as well, e.g., ...
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/bond1.html
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72588
>