Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica (50 page)

152
:  ‘Palms wave – waves ripple …’, Amory, 125.

152
:  ‘I am still sitting in almost the same place …’, Amory, 125.

153
:  ‘evening was totally ruined’, AF to EW, 3 April 1953, Amory, 126.

153
:  ‘Papa is very happy …’ AF to HC, 2 March 1953, Amory, 125.

153
:  ‘lurid melier …’,
New York Times,
10 April 1955.

153
:  ‘adventure’,
LLD,
212.

153
:  ‘like the bad man in a film …’,
LLD,
239.

154
:  ‘Sort of damsel in distress? Good show!’,
LLD,
278.

154
:  ‘half negro and half French’:
LLD,
154.

154
:  ‘grey-black, taut and shining …’,
LLD,
185.

154
:  ‘raving megalomaniac’,
LLD,
194.

154
:  ‘one of the most valuable treasure troves in history’,
LLD,
152.

154
:  ‘Bloody Morgan, the pirate’,
LLD,
150.

154
:  ‘of countless raids on Hispaniola …’,
LLD,
266.

154
:  ‘a face born to command …’,
LLD,
213.

154
:  ‘a lonely childhood on some great decaying plantation …’,
LLD,
191.

154
:  ‘the most dreadful spirit in the whole of Voodooism’,
LLD,
218.

155
:  ‘it took him minutes to forget the atmosphere …’,
LLD,
161.

155
:  ‘She herself considers her ‘second sight’ to be genuine …’,
LLD,
211.

155
:  ‘half-belief in them’,
LLD,
218.

155
:  ‘the extraordinary power of her intuitions.’,
LLD,
236.

155
:  ‘Local black magic (obea) is scarce and dull…’,
Horizon.

155
:  ‘the secret heart of the tropics …’,
LLD,
217.

155
:  ‘rather intrigued by fortune-telling …’,
TC,
59.

156
:  ‘strong feel of the supernatural in the air’, Chris Blackwell interview, 23 June 2013.

156
:  ‘the shadowy form of a woman’, Huggins, 93.

156
:  ‘read most of the books on Voodoo …’,
LLD,
218.

156
:  ‘accepted through all the lower strata of the negro world …’,
LLD,
156.

156
:  ‘the sixth sense of fish, of birds, of negroes.’,
LLD,
217.

157
:  are ‘clumsy black apes’,
LLD,
188.

157
:  ‘negro bodies’, LLD, 179.

157
:  ‘The “paper tiger” hero, James Bond …’, Eldridge Cleaver,
Soul on Ice,
(Jonathan Cape, London, 1969), 80.

157
:  ‘the usual German chip on the shoulder.’,
MR,
386.

157
:  ‘an unquenchable thirst for the bizarre …’,
YLT,
174.

157
:  ‘bums with monogrammed shirts ...’,
DF,
24—5.

157
:  ‘a bastard race, sly, stupid and ill-bred.’,
DF,
6.

157
:  ‘hysterical’,
DN,
215.

158
:  ‘all foreigners are pestilential’, Lycett, 282.

158
:  ‘they were trespassing. They just weren’t wanted’,
LLD,
175.

158
:  ‘Fortunately I like the negroes …’,
LLD,
170.

158
:  ‘Bond had a natural affection for coloured people.’,
DF,
144.

158
:  ‘lashed his revolver into the centre of the negro’s huge belly.’,
DF,
151.

159
:  ‘I didn’t like those two men in hoods …’,
DF,
168.

159
:  ‘spellbound’,
LLD,
177.

159
:  ‘Seems they’re interested in much the same things …’,
LLD,
174.

159
:  ‘sour sweet smell’,
LLD,
178.

159
:  ‘probably the most powerful negro criminal in the world …’,
LLD,
153.

159
:  ‘shrewd’,
LLD,
148.

159
:  ‘The negro races are just beginning …’,
LLD,
153.

160
:  ‘In the history of negro emancipation …’,
LLD,
302.

160
:  ‘a taut, exciting, intelligent and extremely sophisticated who-dunnit’,
Gleaner,
8 September 1954.

160
:  ‘Surely one is not being over-sensitive at the implied condescension …’,
Gleaner,
30 September 1956.

160
:  ‘learned about living amongst, and appreciating, coloured people …’,
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica,
12.

161
:  ‘whereas Ian was a gregarious person ...’, Robert F. Moss ‘James Bond’s Jamaica’,
Signature,
January 1983, 39.

161
:  ‘full of goodwill and cheerfulness and humour.’, Fleming, ‘Pleasure Islands?’,
Spectator,
4 July 1952.

161
:  ‘integrated’, Olivia Grange interview, 21 April 2014.

161
:  ‘It was like the South of France …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

161
:  ‘natural affection’, DN, 397.

162
:  ‘a good man to act as your factotum …’,
LLD,
269.

162
:  ‘Bond liked him immediately.’,
LLD,
270.

162
:  ‘pirate of Morgan’s time.’,
DN,
238.

162
:  ‘spatulate nose and the pale palms of his hands were negroid’,
LLD,
270.

162
:  ‘warm grey eyes.’,
LLD,
284.

162
:  ‘have somehow managed to keep their bloodstream …’,
Sunday Times,
7 April 1957.

162
:  ‘reverence for superstition and instincts …’,
DN,
396–7.

162
:  ‘there was no desire to please …’,
LLD,
270.

163
:  ‘follow Bond unquestioningly.’,
DN,
318.

163
:  ‘the most beautiful beach he had ever seen …’,
LLD,
273.

163
:  ‘succulent meals of fish and eggs and vegetables.’,
LLD,
274—5.

164
:  ‘Bond was sunburned and hard …’,
LLD,
277.

164
:  ‘glad to be back ...’,
LLD,
270.

165
:  ‘grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars’,
LLD,
215.

165
:  ‘gloomy silent withered forests of Florida’,
LLD,
228.

165
:  ‘gleaming moonlit foothills of the Blue Mountain …’,
LLD,
264.

165
:  ‘paw-paw with a slice of green lime …’,
LLD,
270.

165
:  ‘Anglo-American snarls to disentangle’,
LLD,
204.

165
:  ‘a first printing of 7,500 …’, Pearson, 296.

166
:  ‘How wincingly well Mr Fleming writes.’, Lycett, 255.

166
:  ‘the most interesting recent recruit…’,
TLS,
30 April 1954.

166
:  ‘It is an unashamed thriller …’, Chancellor,
James Bond: the Man and his World,
43.

1954–5:
Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever

167
:  ‘Most marriages don’t add two people together …’,
DF,
260.

167
:  ‘She now corrals the people she finds interesting …’, Beaton,
The Strenuous Years,
174–5.

168
:  ‘The noise in there …’, Amory, 129.

168
:  ‘gilded cage.’, Lycett, 236.

168
:  ‘The Flemings’ life together deteriorated …’, Vickers, ed.
Cocktails and Laughter,
99.

168
:  ‘He couldn’t cope at all’, Lycett, 241.

169
:  ‘We may have been accused of having been paternalistic …’, Foot,
Race Relations,
5.

170
:  ‘a most loyal supporter of the Crown’, Huggins, 104.

170
:  ‘The Queen was like Lord you know …’, Pearl Flynn interview, 21 June 2013.

170
:  ‘There was total respect for the head of state …’, Douglas Waite interview, 21 June 2013.

170
:  ‘the character and stability to carry the role …’, Edna Manley Diary, 15 December 1953, 47.

172
:  ‘He was a great friend of my mother’s …’, Salewicz,
Firefly,
41.

172
:  ‘with their mimic high life …’, Pringle,
Waters of the West,
89–90.

172
:  ‘By 1956, there were 1,350.’, Taylor,
To Hell with Paradise,
164.

173
:  ‘regarded it as a tourist trap’, Bryce, 88

173
:  ‘Montego was horrible as usual…’,
NC Diary,
February 1957, 346.

173
:  ‘crazily inflated tourist boom …’,
Sunday Times,
28 March 1954.

173
:  ‘Rather odd that in Jamaica …’,
Gleaner,
18 May 1938.

173
:  ‘fast international set’,
MSS,
57.

173
:  ‘sunburned men in England …’,
MR,
332.

173
:  ‘British atmosphere.’,
Oakland Tribune,
15 November 1953.

174
:  ‘There are no ‘America. Go Home!” signs on this island …’,
Charleston Gazette,
13 April 1957.

174
:  ‘success stories in the tourist industry of Jamaica ...’,
Gleaner,
27 September 1955.

174
:  ‘doubling between 1951 and 1959 to nearly 200,000 ...’, Taylor,
To Hell with Paradise,
160.

174
:  ‘The American who comes here ...’, Thompson,
An Eye for the Tropics,
239–40.

174
:  ‘invested in local property’,
DS,
(Vintage ed. 2013), 85.

175
:  ‘usually three of four a week …’,
P&C,
91.

175
:  ‘Lady Rothermere’s Fan’ Fionn Morgan, ‘Beautiful, Dandified Detachment’,
Spectator,
12 December 2008.

175
:  ‘neither a wild bohemian nor a rampant homosexual.’, Quennell,
Wanton,
146.

175
:  ‘I must admit…’, Quennell,
Wanton,
157.

175
:  ‘a natural melancholic …’, Quennell,
Wanton,
153.

175
:  ‘The Puritan and the Jesuit…’,
MR,
332.

176
:  ‘dew was glittering …’, Quennell,
Sign,
112–13.

177
:  ‘The Caribbean night falls …’, Quennell,
Sign,
117.

177
:  ‘worked and played according to a prearranged schedule …’, Quennell
Wanton,
154.

177
:  ‘Another peculiarity of the place …’, Pearson, 170.

178
:  ‘genial Caribbean squire’,
Vogue,
November 1963.

178
:  ‘far closer to the life of some self-absorbed eighteenth-century original…’, Pearson, 168.

179
:  ‘awoke the authoritarian’, AF to Clarissa Churchill, later Eden, 3 March 1952, Amory, 108.

179
:  ‘Everybody understood that his work came first…’,
Gleaner,
20 September 1964.

179
:  ‘evidently enjoyed his work’, Quennell,
Wanton,
152.

179
:  ‘with a fierce intensity.’, Harling,
Vogue.

179
:  ‘By 24 February, he had written 30,000 words …’, Lycett, 255.

179
:  ‘a raving paranoiac’,
MR,
381.

179
:  ‘loud-mouthed and ostentatious’,
MR,
334.

180
:  ‘Useless, idle, decadent fools …’,
MR,
481.

180
:  ‘white scribbles in the sky.’,
MR
, 430.

180
:  ‘where Caesar had first landed …’,
MR,
430–1.

180
:  ‘the best in the world.’,
MR,
360.

180
:  ‘the Palace … the softly beating heart of London.’,
MR,
457, 506.

181
:  ‘of course I have the affectionate reverence for Sir Winston Churchill Fleming, ‘If I Were Prime Minister’,
Spectator, 9
October 1959.

181
:  ‘two virtues, patriotism and courage.’,
Playboy
interview.

181
:  ‘The boy stood on the burning deck …’,
MR,
489.

181
:  ‘Height: 5ft 7. Weight: 9 Stone …’,
MR,
394.

181
:  ‘Noël brought a Mainbocher …’, AF to HC, January 1954, Amory, 135.

182
:  ‘making love, with a rather cold passion ...’,
MR,
328.

182
:  ‘Marriage and children and a home were out of the question …
MR,
326.

182
:  ‘What’s the alternative? …’,
MR,
505.

182
:  ‘prairie fire of fear, intolerance and hatred …’,
Sunday Times,
22 November 1953.

182
:  ‘What’s [M] so worried about?’,
DF,
24.

182
:  ‘Seems that most of what they call “gem” diamonds …’,
DF,
19

183
:  ‘One’s almost ashamed of it being an English possession …’,
DS,
82.

183
:  ‘won’t be much help to us, I’m afraid.’,
DF,
21.

183
:  ‘pick Britain’s chestnuts out of the fire.’,
DF,
58.

184
:  ‘a poor substitute for the product of Scotland.’,
DF,
90.

184
:  ‘hit Bond’s face like a fist.’,
DF,
172.

184
:  ‘Bond wishfully dreams he is back in Jamaica’,
DF,
228.

184
:  ‘ghastly glitter’,
DF,
178.

184
:  ‘Now the hoodlums don’t run liquor …’,
DF,
170.

184
:  ‘Maybe you can strike a blow …’,
DF,
214.

184
:  ‘the great safe black British belly’,
DF,
252.

184
:  ‘the extra exotic touch of the negroes’,
DF,
125.