27-04-2012, 02:00 PM
Please identify clearly and unequivocally the entity or entities you reference as "the Blofeld muse."
Otherwise: When you cite "Buchanan's conclusion" that the choice of Dallas for the hit was made because the city's "police authorities" were corrupt, you imply that Dallas was unique in this respect. You are, of course, dead wrong.
And do tell, why would the "oil industry" Sponsor of the hit choose to make it in the American city that more than any other was and is identified with said industry?
As for Fleming's "stories" showing an "interest in aerospace," I'm afraid that, with the exception of Moonraker -- and even that is a stretch -- the Bond novels reflect virtually no thematic or subtextual concern for that subject. You are conflating Hollywood butcherings of Fleming's plots -- malformations that were inflicted long after Fleming's death -- with the original literary story lines.
Another example: The Howard Hughes-inspired character ("Willard Whyte," as portrayed by country singer/sausage magnate Jimmy Dean) in the film Diamonds are Forever -- one that did not appear in the original Fleming novel.
That Ian Fleming was up to his impressive ears in intel ops and secrets cannot and must not be denied. But I'm afraid your thesis as currently offered is fatally weakened by sloppy research and reasoning. And all your cute "inside" references -- to the lyrics of the Thunderball theme song ("those who run while others walk"), Ian Richardson's character in House of Cards, etc. -- cannot save you.
Had you written about, say, Fleming's late 1950s presentation of the notion of serial killers being employed as assassins by intelligence agencies, then we might have engaged in an interesting dialogue.
But alas, you did not.
Take it easy, Mr. Thoroddsen.
Otherwise: When you cite "Buchanan's conclusion" that the choice of Dallas for the hit was made because the city's "police authorities" were corrupt, you imply that Dallas was unique in this respect. You are, of course, dead wrong.
And do tell, why would the "oil industry" Sponsor of the hit choose to make it in the American city that more than any other was and is identified with said industry?
As for Fleming's "stories" showing an "interest in aerospace," I'm afraid that, with the exception of Moonraker -- and even that is a stretch -- the Bond novels reflect virtually no thematic or subtextual concern for that subject. You are conflating Hollywood butcherings of Fleming's plots -- malformations that were inflicted long after Fleming's death -- with the original literary story lines.
Another example: The Howard Hughes-inspired character ("Willard Whyte," as portrayed by country singer/sausage magnate Jimmy Dean) in the film Diamonds are Forever -- one that did not appear in the original Fleming novel.
That Ian Fleming was up to his impressive ears in intel ops and secrets cannot and must not be denied. But I'm afraid your thesis as currently offered is fatally weakened by sloppy research and reasoning. And all your cute "inside" references -- to the lyrics of the Thunderball theme song ("those who run while others walk"), Ian Richardson's character in House of Cards, etc. -- cannot save you.
Had you written about, say, Fleming's late 1950s presentation of the notion of serial killers being employed as assassins by intelligence agencies, then we might have engaged in an interesting dialogue.
But alas, you did not.
Take it easy, Mr. Thoroddsen.