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Whenever he goes to Jamaica or another tropical clime, Bond wears Sea Island Cotton short-sleeved shirts.
The solid specificty of names and labels was important to Fleming: it gave his fiction, he thought, a sort of muscularity. In an article he wrote about the craft of writing thrillers--I'll post the link later--he talked about the vagueness of most "naturalistic" fiction: "The heroes of most English novels seem to subsist only on cups of tea and glasses of beer"--that is, they never become real to us because we never get a sense of the mundane details of their lives.
It's been twenty years since I read From Russia, With Love, and i can still tell you off the top of my head that when we irst meet SMERSH assassin Donovan Grant in his garden that he's been reading a late P.G. Wodehouse novel called The Little Nugget,, and that he has an expensive gold watch on a worn, brown eather strap.
I remember this the same way I can recite great swathes of Yeats.
There is more poetry in Fleming's writing than he takes credit for.
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