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Odd fact: Sting wrote Every Breath You Take at Fleming's writing desk while vacationing at the Goldeneye estate in 1982.
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sebmojo posted:Fleming just really hated octopuses Octopodes The answer is that if sharks or barracuda attacked him it would be a much shorter book / you gotta build up to the sharks
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sebmojo posted:yeah, it's mons veneris that's the pubic mound, i thought that too. Mount of venus is a palmistry thing. yeah, that reads to me like a dodge past the censors type thing.
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chitoryu12 posted:Before we continue on with Dr. No's story, let's talk about his progenitor: Fu Manchu. That's almost enough to make me believe in a just god. I'll repost an old post of mine on the good doctor: Hieronymous Alloy posted:I don't know if this is what you're asking for, but the original Fu Manchu books are a bizarre read because they're so wildly racist that by modern standards . . . well, Fu Manchu is basically so much smarter than the protagonists that the only way they ever beat him is by relying on his "inscrutable Oriental honor" to deceive him into bargains that Our Heroes then betray. All his plots involve mysterious, nefarious drugs like "indian hemp, cannabis indica". The actual protagonists are literal Aryan heroes. With every book the racism gets more and more extreme; in one volume they're protecting a Father Coughlin surrogate. Fu Manchu's main motivation is that he's a Chinese nationalist agent trying to fight off western imperialist spies. It's especially funny watching the Indiana Jones movies after reading the Fu Manchu books because Lucas basically just rewrote fu manchu except this time the Nazis were the villains instead of the heroes -- Handsome American Archaeologist vs the Nazis instead of Handsome Aryan Archaeologist vs the Chinese.
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sniper4625 posted:Well worth it, this thread is great. Yup. When you're done with the oeuvre let me know and I'll goldmine.
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I'll be moving this to goldmine. Thanks chitoryu!
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