NP but John Le Carre

[Erik T. Burns]

in re beckett's the sun shone, one also ought to know better than to start
off talking about the weather... (as per Elmore Leonard)

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 11:05 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:29 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 'The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.' hehe
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:19 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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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