Read Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica Online
Authors: Matthew Parker
7
: ‘the Royal Hawaiian Serenaders,
TC,
(Vintage 2013 ed.), 87.
8
: ‘quite a frightening woman’, Lucy Williams interview, 9 July 2013.
9
: ‘The fact that I was so much happier when I was alone …’,
SLM,
(Vintage ed. 2012), 6.
9
: ‘his inmost self strongly fortified’, William Plomer, ‘Ian Fleming Remembered’,
Encounter,
January 1965, vol. xxiv, no.1.
10
: ‘the English upper crust…’, Robert Harling,
Vogue,
November 1963.’selfconsuming.’, obituary by Donald McLachlan,
Sunday Telegraph,
quoted in Lycett,
Ian Fleming,
443.
10
: ‘Bryce had laid his hands on a second-hand Douglas motorbike’ …, Bryce, 3.
11
: ‘He ought to make an excellent soldier…’, Pearson, 31.
11
: ‘having fun with the local Heidis …’, Lewis,
Cyril Connolly: a Life,
297.
11
: ‘have a powerful weakness for young Englishmen’,
TC,
192.
11
: ‘irresistible to women.’, Pearson, 46.
11
: ‘a promise of something dashing … ‘, Plomer,
Encounter.
12
: ‘a series of appealing nymphs …’, Bryce, 101.
12
: ‘countless neurotic patients had disappeared …’,
YLT,
(Vintage ed. 2012), 22.
12
: ‘happy and electrically alive’, Bryce, 47.
13
: ‘I left Berlin without regret…’,
TC,
177.
13
: ‘handsome and moody creature’, Amory, 35.
13
: ‘Godlike but unapproachable.’, Pearson, 211.
14
: ‘None of us had any affection …’, AF to HC, December 1950, Amory, 95.
14
: ‘a slim, dark, handsome, highly strung …’, Harling,
Vogue.
14
: ‘I thought Ian original and entertaining’, Pearson, 212.
14
: ‘I knew instinctively it would be fatal …’, Amory, 41.
14
: ‘cads and bounders’, Amory, 32.
15
: ‘the night before I married Esmond …’, Amory, 42.
15
: ‘affluent pre-War style’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
105.
15
: ‘that little rat Attlee’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
107.
15
: ‘stimulating
inspiratrice’,
Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
58.
15
: ‘not a man of single aspect’, Plomer,
Encounter.
15
: ‘a brilliant and witty talker …’, Allen Dulles, Our Spy-Boss Who Loved Bond’,
Life,
28 August 1966.
15
: ‘conveyed the sense of being alone …’, Plomer,
Encounter.
1946: Oracabessa and ‘Old Jamaica’
16
: ‘Mr Luttrell’s house was left empty ...’, Jean Rhys,
Wide Sargasso Sea,
18.
16
: ‘Ten acres or so, away from towns …’, Pearson, 159.
16
: ‘an old gentleman …’, Bryce, 76.
16
: ‘a little place with good swimming and an island.’, Pearson notes from his Jamaica trip, 1965, Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library Pearson, J. Mss.
18
: ‘handful of heartbreakingly relaxed sounding words’, Winder,
The Man Who Saved Britain,
143.
20
: ‘steady zing of the crickets …’,
DN,
(Penguin Classics Omnibus ed. 2002), 239.
20
: ‘no glass in the windows, only good old Jamaica jalousies.’:,
Gleaner,
20 September 1964.
20
: ‘so that the birds could fly through …’,
Gleaner,
10 February 1963.
21
: ‘modern – a squat elongated box without ornament.’,
RWL,
(Penguin Classics Omnibus ed. 2002), 6.
21
: ‘a small army of men, women, children, and donkeys …’,
Sunspots,
unpublished memoir by Marion Simmons, 15–16.
21
: ‘insignificant and small’, Bryce, 79.
21
: ‘often hiss like vipers …’,
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica,
13.
22
: ‘extremely uncomfortable dining table …’, Bryce, 50.
22
: ‘That was a bit of a job’, Pearson notes.
22
: ‘infinitely practical and direct…’, Bryce, 80,
22
: ‘It had cost £7000 …’, Huggins,
Too Much to Tell,
103.
22
: ‘the finest house in the island.’, Montgomery Hyde,
The Quiet Canadian,
238.
23
: ‘That young whippersnapper!’, Pearson, 171.
24
: ‘as if the sky were a glass ceiling …’, Thompson,
An Eyefor the Tropics,
27.
24
: ‘stories of pirates and desperadoes …’, Mitchell,
In My Stride,
139.
25
: ‘hail and icy sleet’,
DN,
219.
25
: ‘velvet heat’,
DN
, 237.
25
: ‘Prince’s Club, in the foothills above Kingston …’, SS, (Penguin ed. 2002), 209.
25
: ‘those generously red-splashed maps …’, Mitchell,
The Spice of Life,
19.
25
: ‘bled pretty thin by a couple of World Wars.’,
YĽT,
109.
26
: ‘an occasional man going off to his precipitous smallholding …’,
DN,
267.
26
: ‘We absorbed the doctrine that white was virtue …’, Sherlock,
Manley,
24.
27
: ‘the social life of the upper classes …’, Cargill,
A Selection of his Writings in the Gleaner,
34.
27
: ‘very reserved and
even
unfriendly’,
West Indian Review,
9 September 1950, vol. 2, no. 19,13.
27
: ‘an unimaginative man …’,
Spotlight
August 1950, 16.
27
: ‘she was the one that really registered.’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.
28
: ‘an ugly, squat, grey cement building.’, Huggins, 79.
28
: ‘much of it brought out from England in the old days …’, Huggins, 84.
28
: ‘We rather startled Jamaica in the early days …’, Huggins, 82.
28
: ‘sadly neglected’, Huggins, 129.
28
: ‘there seemed to be a great deal of poverty …’, Huggins, 49.
28
: ‘the Jamaican plantocracy …’, Huggins, 110.
28
: ‘the sugar workers were very badly paid …’, Huggins, 59.
28
: ‘and there were a great many pathetic ones asking for money …’, Huggins, 81.
28
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9
: ‘I realized very quickly that what Jamaican women needed ...’, Huggins, 109.
29
: ‘every three or four years’, Huggins, 4.
29
: ‘I suppose I fell in love with Jamaica ...’, Huggins, 109,
30
: ‘Nothing like Lady Molly Huggins ever happened ...’,
Life,
24 April 1950.
30
: ‘The handsome young men …’,
West Indian Review, 9
September 1950, vol. 2, no.19.
31
: ‘senior staff of the Frome sugar estates
.’, MGG,
(Pan ed. 1966), 57.
32
: ‘one of the island’s most desirable properties’, Hakewill,
A Picturesque Tour
n.p.
32
: ‘a very fine piece of water …’, Edward Long,
A History of Jamaica,
1744, 2:76.
32
: ‘production in Jamaica slumped…’, Deere,
The History of Sugar,
vol.1, 199.
32
: ‘sugar plantations shrank from more than 500 to just 77.’, Thomson,
The Dead Yard,
49.
32
: ‘Trinity’s output halved …’, Higman
Jamaica Surveyed,
118.
33
: ‘ruined slaves’ quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses …’, Richard Hughes,
High Wind in Jamaica,
1.
33
: ‘through three centuries…’,
SS,
35.
33
: ‘a thousand acres of cattle-tick … ‘,
SS,
33.
34
: ‘vibrant, colourful characters’, interview filmed for Oracabessa oral history project, 1997.
34
: ‘sleazy, brilliantly lit wharves …’, Ross,
Through the Caribbean,
129.
35
: ‘work night and day to make any money …’, Oracabessa oral history project, 1997.
1947: The Bachelor Party
36
: ‘He knew, deep down, that love from Mary Goodnight…’,
MGG,
191.
36
: ‘DaCosta remembers him waving to the boys …’, Ramsay Dacosta interview, 3 July 2012.
37
: ‘Cool as hell…’ , Raymond Benson interview, 11 February 2014.
38
: ‘a cubist arrangement of concrete surfaces …’, Bryce, 80.
38
: ‘beautiful married blonde from Bermuda’, Lycett, 174.
38
: ‘a million fragments of damaged cotton goods …’, Bryce, 85.
39
: ‘The Colonel will be delighted to receive you, sir …’, Bryce, 102.
40
: ‘All writers possessed of any energy …’, Amis,
The James Bond Dossier,
115.
40
: ‘Every exploration and every dive …’, Bryce, 84—5.
40
: ‘There are so many things which would make you giggle here …’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 55.
41
: ‘small blackamore troubles ...’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 55.
41
: ‘coping with staff.’, ‘How to Write a Thriller’,
Books and Bookmen,
May 1963.
41
: ‘They require exact instructions …’, Fleming, Where Shall John Go? XIII-Jamaica’,
Horizon,
vol. 16, no.96, December 1947.
41
: ‘Jamaican servants, for all their charm ...’,
MGG,
94.
41
: ‘One of those superlative human beings …’, Bryce, 84.
41
: ‘The Commander was the best man I ever met ...’,
Gleaner,
20 September 1964.
42
: ‘conch gumbo and fried octopus tentacles with tartare sauce ...’, Pearson, 171.
42
: ‘Too many of the English and American wives …’,
TC,
16–17.
42
: ‘a passport into the lower strata of coloured life …’,
DN,
239.
42
: ‘My neighbours, both coloured and white …’,
Horizon.
44
: ‘she really preferred women to men.’, Huggins, 144.
44
: ‘the last word in comfort and luxury …’, Sunset Lodge brochure.
44
: ‘huge bonfire on the beach …’, IF to AF, 26 January 1947, Amory, 56.
44
: ‘When they found Jamaica, they found it so beautiful…’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.
45
: ‘By 1938 visitor numbers had grown …’, Taylor,
To Hell with Paradise,
155.
45
: ‘Here they come’,
Gleaner,
29 January 1948.
45
: ‘We want taking out of ourselves …’, Chancellor,
James Bond: the Man and his World,
169.
46
: ‘I’ve always thought that if I ever married …’,
SS,
77.
46
: ‘sun is always shining in my books …’, Fleming, ‘How to write a Thriller’,
Books and Bookmen,
May 1963.
47
: ‘After four days of storm …’, Flynn,
Wicked Ways,
307.
48
: ‘According to his widow, Patrice …’, Patrice Wymore Flynn interview, 8 July 2012.
48
: ‘She hadn’t wanted to see me …’, Flynn,
Wicked Ways,
309.
49
: ‘gorgeous god …’,
Sunday Times,
7 October 2012.
49
: ‘I just wasn’t allowed to know any black people …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.
50
: ‘a very handsome man …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.
50
: ‘pretentious and full of himself’, Patrice Wymore Flynn interview, 8 July 2012.
50
: ‘For God’s sake! That’s the worst insult you can pay a man.’,
RWL,
144.
51
: ‘Yes, I’m fucking them both.’, Lycett, 164.
51
: ‘everything starts wrong and goes on wrong…’, Ibid.
51
: ‘an admiring sugar planter’s daughter’, Ann Diary fragment, Amory, 60.
51
: ‘His days of fame …’, Huggins, 87.
51
: ‘If the moral standard of the women can be raised …’,
West Indian Review,
9 September 1950, vol. 2, no.19,15.
51
: ‘came in cars, on mules, donkeys and horses.’, Huggins, 117.
52
: ‘the Continental attitude’, Huggins, 150.
52
: ‘nymphomaniac’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 17 April 2013.
52
: ‘the love of the people of Jamaica for me.’, Huggins, 150.
53
: ‘2000 different varieties of flowers’,
Horizon.
53
: ‘The most beautiful bird in Jamaica …’,
SS,
32.
54
: ‘some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.’,
LLD,
271.
54
: ‘the most beautiful large island in the world.’, Pearson, 172.
54
: ‘you drop down, often through a cathedral of bamboo …’,
Horizon.
54
: ‘a description that Fleming would reuse ...’,
LDD,
271.
55
: ‘dictatorship of white supremacy’, Beckles,
Britain’s Black Debt,
3.
55
: ‘the children have yaws on their legs ...’, Pringle,
Waters of the West,
45.
56
: ‘ugly’ past…’, Norman Manley’s introduction to omnibus, Roger Mais novels, Jonathan Cape, 1966, vol. v.
57
: ‘The Empire and British rule rest on a carefully nurtured sense of inferiority …’, Sherlock,
Manley
160, 27.
57
: ‘nurture a sense of inferiority in the masses’,
Public Opinion,
29 May 1943.
57
: ‘Each Jamaican was a smoldering little volcano …’,
Spotlight,
August 1950, vol. 11, no.8,11.
57
: ‘revolution because of class resentment’, Pringle,
Waters of the West,
105.