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Gotcha! An Error by Fleming

Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
edited January 2014 in Literary 007 Posts: 2,483
Near the end of Live and Let Die Fleming writes, "The first tears since his childhood came into James Bond's blue-grey eyes and ran down his drawn cheeks into the bloodstained sea."

Alas, in Casino Royale, Bond's previous mission, Fleming wrote, "On the morning of the third day a bloody nightmare shook him awake, trembling and sweating. There was a hand on his forehead which he associated with his dream. He tried to lift an arm and smash it sideways into the owner of the hand, but his arms were immovable, secured to the sides of his bed. His whole body was strapped down and something like a large white coffin covered him from chest to feet and obscured his view of the rest of the bed. He shouted a string of obscenities; but the effort took all of his strength, and the words trailed off into a sob. Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes*."

*Emphasis mine.

Not a big deal. Just thought I'd point it out.

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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,183
    Good catch, @Perilagu_Khan! :-)

    I guess Fleming wasn't too focused on that particular level of continuity. Still, sharp eyes you have there, sir.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,800
    All this tearful intensity. Sounds like Dalton...
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    DarthDimi wrote:
    Good catch, @Perilagu_Khan! :-)

    I guess Fleming wasn't too focused on that particular level of continuity. Still, sharp eyes you have there, sir.

    Wait till you get to my...aw hell, that's just too dam' easy.



    :-B
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,281
    I think, though, that this is pointed out in The Bond Files (2000, 2nd ed.) by Lane and Simpson or some such other book. I remember reading it. Good that you spotted it all on your own, @Perilagu_Khan!
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    edited January 2014 Posts: 4,423
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    Wait till you get to my...aw hell, that's just too dam' easy.



    :-B

    allow me....

    earlobes?


  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    edited January 2014 Posts: 4,423
    edit

  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    chrisisall wrote:
    All this tearful intensity. Sounds like Craig...

    Fixed.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited January 2014 Posts: 12,837
    Craig and Dalton are both close to the books, in their own way. Craig is like Lazenby, he's emotional and vulnerable. He's also like Fleming's Bond because he isn't really comfortable with killing in cold blood (at least in CR, they sort of forgot about this in QOS and SF).

    Dalton shows the world weary, burnt out side of Fleming's Bond who was sick of his job rather than the emotional side that didn't like killing (he's sort of uncomfortable with killing in cold blood in TLD when he spares Kara but this goes out of the window later on, he's fine killing in cold blood in LTK). Basically he was the Bond from the TLD short story.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,281
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    Craig and Dalton are both close to the books, in their on way. Craig is like Lazenby, he's emotional and vulnerable. He's also like Fleming's Bond because he isn't really comfortable with killing in cold blood (at least in CR, they sort of forgot about this in QOS and SF).

    Dalton shows the world weary, burnt out side of Fleming's Bond who was sick of his job. Basically he was the Bond from the TLD short story.

    Indeed. Well said. I like to refer to the Dalton Bond as the one from TLD ss. too - The Nelson Touch Bond, as it says in the YOLT Times Obit. Interesting takes on Bond too, and along with that of the much-maligned Lazenby, probably the very best, too.
  • timmertimmer
    edited January 2014 Posts: 4,622
    The charm of Fleming's Bond is that he could have his emotional reflective moments yet find his way back to being the deadly determined smooth blunt instrument that he is.
    Maybe not as quickly as Connery-Bond but still he got back to being Bond.
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