NP but John Le Carre

[John Bailey]

I was a big fan of the Bond movies as a kid, which isn't shocking given how
they're mastubatory juvenile fantasies. Sexist, racist, homophobic, you
name it. They are excellent distillations of their culture, and still work
very well as time capsules. To that end you can consider the publicity
images of the upcoming one, in which Bond is clutching some kind of assault
rifle. Hardly the debonair superspy with his little Beretta or Walther PPK
- now the fantasy is about being a rogue paramilitary trooper.
Fleming's novels are just as indicative of a certain wish-fulfilment but
the few I read way back when were deeply and unexpectedly nasty. I know the
James Bond of the novels is supposed to be a deliberately unpleasant and
boorish guy but I'm really not sure why they were so popular.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:38 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sun shone. End of my argument. The "The" lends no weight to the sentence.
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> On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:29 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 'The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.' hehe
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> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:19 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> >> Long ago, I made  a policy, applicable only to myself: never read a book
> >> whose opening sentence beins with "The." Any writer worth his or her
> salt
> >> knows better.
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