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I am very much working class too but I saved up and got a new PC and spacious screen last year! It's a Godsend!
Great, thanks, @PropertyOfALady! It must just be on my friend's computer then I'm guessing!
I'm not terribly sure! How do I check?
I use Google Chrome.
Thanks, I just did that. My screen resolution is 1920x1080 (recommended).
It was just that a good friend emailed me to say they could not read the article properly due to it moving up and down on his PC screen.
Yes, that's exactly what I did for him - and then sent it to him as an email attachment. I'm a whizkid! ;)
http://thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/10-offensive-quotes-from-ian-flemings.html
As for them never turning up on film, never say never. In a period piece, who knows?
Yes, indeed some of them are funny to read now.
I can't ever see them doing a period piece Bond film but after the reboot, I suppose anything's possible.
Glad you enjoyed my first quest article on The Bondologist Blog, @Thunderfinger!
More new content on the way soon.
No, you're not alone. I must be abnormal too. I especially enjoy the one about Vesper and how she should be at home working in the kitchen. One does have to keep in mind the context of the times when reading the Fleming novels, that's for sure.
http://thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/eleven-years-later-addendum-to-dossier.html
I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Yes, I believe Mr Reineke is correct in saying they only met twice towards the end of Fleming's life. I guess it's just that Amis is so associated with Fleming as the author of The James Bond Dossier and The Book of Bond and also by being his first literary heir with Colonel Sun. Still, I'm glad that they had the chance to meet.
Years ago I remember being surprised that Fleming and Amis had even met--they seemed like figures from different worlds. I had assumed that Fleming died without being aware of The James Bond Dossier.
But yes, they met twice. Eric Jacobs's biography of Amis states that Fleming gave his impressions of the Dossier over lunch at L'Etoile restaurant in Charlotte Street:
Fleming also provided a written blurb for the Dossier: "Intelligent, perceptive, and of course to me highly entertaining. The whole jape is quite spiffing and heaven knows what a smart reviewer will do about the book"
The second encounter is described in one of Ann Fleming's letters to Evelyn Waugh, dated July 19, 1964:
The reference to "anger" is a joke about Amis's status as one of the "angry young men," a group of artists who shook up the British arts establishment in the 1950s. Ann, who seems to have had an irrational hatred and suspicion of Amis, didn't realize that Amis had been growing more conservative.
I wish Fleming had lived long enough to follow Amis's advice!
But keep, keeping on. :)
Yes, that's true. I'll keep battling on! :D
the discipline to set aside time, to write a book or two. =D> I don't know
how they do it, like many of us, I have loads of ideas, but never carry them
through :( So I'm sure trying to constantly find new stories, articles or
points of interest for a blog must be equally as difficult.