SLPAD - 16 - Bond, James Bond

[Michael Bailey]

Timely sentence “John Kennedy’s role model James Bond was about to make his
name by kicking third-world people around, another extension of the boy’s
adventure tales a lot of us grew up reading.”

Snatched from recent headlines:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/ian-fleming-james-bond-rewriting-statement-b2290950.html?amp

“Ian Fleming’s estate backs controversial James Bond edits: ‘It is
something he would have wanted.’”


Then there’s a percipient sentence about race, culminating in harsh words
for the tone of “Lowlands” -

“It may yet turn out that racial differences are not as basic as questions
of money and power, but have served a useful purpose, often in the interest
of those who deplore them most, in keeping us divided and so relatively
poor and powerless. This having been said, however, the narrative voice in
this story here remains that of a smart-assed jerk…”