Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica (49 page)

105
:  ‘You fear the moral “dégringolade” of the tropics …’,
Horizon.

106
:  ‘wanted to get the hell away from King’s House …’,
DN,
399.

106
:  ‘though our political views differed.’, Huggins, 138.

106
:  ‘though I don’t think she really approved of me …’, Huggins, 107.

107
:  ‘I’ll be damned.’,
Gleaner,
February 1950.

107
–
8
: We were proud to be nonconformists and Roundheads …’,
New York Times,
7 September 1990.

108
:  ‘dapper’ and ‘well-bred’,
Spotlight,
August 1950, 19.

108
:  ‘charming, likable, infinitely clever person.’, Edna Manley Diaries, 14 November 1953, 46.

109
:  ‘Quite nice, really, but a bit sticky.’: Coward, ‘South Sea Bubble’,
Play Parade,
vi, 117.

109
:  ‘true-blue conservative’,
P&C,
223.

109
:  ‘an ardent socialist in his earlier years.’, Ibid.

109
:  ‘When I was governor of Jamaica …’, Foot,
Empire into Commonwealth,
8.

109
:  ‘advancing at an accelerating rate …’, Foot,
Start,
120.

1951: ’Disciplined Exoticism’

110
:  ‘What I endeavour to aim at… ‘, ‘How to Write a Thriller’.

110
:  ‘more than any other woman’, IF to AF, February 1950, Amory, 80–1.

110
:  ‘static emotional state’, AF to HC, 18 August 1950, Amory, 93.

111
:  ‘Christmas without Ian seems a bleak affair …’, AF to HC, 2 November 1950, Amory, 94.

111
:  ‘Cecil was tremendously brave …’, AF to DC, 10 February 1951, Amory, 96.

111
:  ‘something reptilian about him.’, Fionn Morgan interview, 24 January 2013.

113
:  ‘a genuine coral reef 18
^th
century-print wreck …’, AF to DC, 10 February 1951, Amory, 97.

113
:  ‘got off with women because he could not get on with them.’, Amory, 37.

113
:  ‘the extremely unfeeling use to which he put his great attractions’, Quennell,
Wanton,
152.

114
:  ‘stories of battles, tornados ...’, MSS, (Vintage ed. 2012), 257.

114
:  ‘gave you the impression of being in a battleship in harbour.’,
MR,
346.

114
:  ‘a keen sailor’s face, with the clear, sharp sailor’s eyes’, Ibid.

115
:  ‘the sort of aquiline good looks that are associated …’,
LLD,
265.

115
:  ‘ with ‘what almost amounted to the “Nelson Touch”,
YLT,
271.

116
:  ‘divers barbarous acts’, Parker,
The Sugar Barons,
141.

116
:  ‘debauched wild blades’, Parker,
The Sugar Barons,
177.

116
:  ‘the buccaneers of Port Royal…’, Mitchell,
The Spice of Life,
51.

117
:  ‘four-penny horrors’,
Playboy
interview.

117
:  ‘doubtless stuffed with pirate treasure …’,
Horizon.

117
:  ‘I wouldn’t love you if you weren’t a pirate’,
MSS,
323.

117
:  ‘piratical.’,
CR,
40,

117
:  ‘the slightly piratical air …’, Lycett, 371.

117
:  ‘greedy boisterous pirate.’, SS, 132.

117
:  ‘exuberant shrewd pirate.’,
RWL,
108.

117
:  ‘All history is sex and violence.’, Fleming on Desert Island Discs, 1963.

118
:  ‘known, the map says, by the name of Look Behind.’,
Horizon.

119
:  ‘supersonic John Buchan.’,
Listener,
23 April 1953.

120
:  ‘seeing the West Indies in their last rip-roaring days …’, Hugh Edwards, Introduction to
All Night at Mr Staneyhursts,
(Jonathan Cape, London, 1964), xvii.

120
:  ‘exaggeration and things larger than life,’,
Playboy
interview.

120
:  ‘hot-blooded sadism and slaves set in the 1850s.’,
Horizon.

121
:  ‘the stews of Kingston’,
Horizon.

122
:  ‘Some things have happened recently …’,
Sunspots,
60.

122
:  ‘The thing is to let the blacks know I
have
a pistol’, Pearson, 194.

122
:  ‘for defence against the Blackamoors.’, Pearson, 319.

122
:  ‘most law abiding and God-fearing …’,
Horizon.

123
:  ‘luscious clash of ostentation and restraint’: introduction to Penguin ed., vii.

213
:  ‘What I endeavour to aim at…’, ‘How to write a Thriller’.

1952:
Casino Royale

124
:  ‘Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour …’,
CR,
10.

124
:  ‘the easiest way’, AF to HC and VC, January 1952, Amory, 102.

124
:  ‘We are of course totally unsuited …’, IF to HC, 23 February 1952, Amory, 106.

125
:  ‘You might get too irritated …’, IF to AF, February 1949, Amory, 78.

125
:  ‘quite a step for him …’: AF to HC and VC, 15 March 1952, Amory, 111.

125
:  ‘BOAC, with its Stratocruiser …’,
Gleaner,
6 May 1952.

126
:  ‘I watched the banks for new flowers …’, Ann’s Diary 1952, Amory, 109.

127
:  ‘Dine with Ian and Annie …’,
NC Diary,
16 February 1952,189.

127
:  ‘should be used as a cabaret and not as a guest…’, AF to CB, 29 February 1952, Amory, 106–7.

127
:  ‘rather a tense period in our lives.’, Pearson, 224ff.

128
:  ‘This morning Ian started to type a book …’, undated Ann diary, Amory, 108.

129
:  ‘the house runs away with money all through the year.’, Pearson, 196.

130
:  ‘These blithering women …’,
CR,
75.

130
:  ‘the lengthy approaches to a seduction bored him …’,
CR,
112.

130
:  ‘brutally ravaged’,
CR,
34.

130
:  ‘People are islands …’,
CR,
121.

130
:  ‘wasn’t very anxious to start…’, Pearson, 224.

130
:  ‘main thing is to write fast…’,
Playboy
interview.

131
:  ‘an important fifth column …’,
CR,
10.

131
:  ‘efficient organ of Soviet vengeance’,
CR,
12.

131
:  ‘Jamaican plantocrat…’,
CR,
19.

131
:  ‘a ‘taciturn man who was head of the picture desk …’,
CR,
7.

131
:  ‘Charles DaSilva of Chaffery’s, Kingston’,
CR,
19.

131
:  ‘What is more natural than that you should pick up a pretty girl …’,
CR,
23.

132
:  ‘excited by her beauty’,
CR,
28.

132
:  ‘They’re stupid, but obedient…’,
CR,
23.

132
:  ‘like an octopus under a rock.’,
CR,
65.

132
:  ‘a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink.’,
CR,
43.

132
:  ‘bowled out.’,
CR,
22.

132
:  ‘the old days of the hero getting a crack over the head … ‘, Desert Island Discs.

133
:  ‘who had probably had plenty of money ...’,
CR,
52.

133
:  ‘a mixture of taciturnity and passion.’,
CR,
112.

133
:  ‘I don’t think Bond has ever been melted …’,
CR, 29.

133
:  ‘like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.’,
CR,
180.

133
:  ‘ironical, brutal and cold’,
CR,
10.

133
:  ‘Bond lit his seventieth cigarette …’,
CR, 9.

134
:  ‘passion for speed, his taste for mechanical devices …’, Quennell,
Wanton Chase,
157.

134
:  ‘probably a mixture of Mediterranean with Prussian or Polish strains’,
CR,
14.

134
:  ‘moist yellowish skin …’,
CR,
90.

134
:  ‘large sexual appetite.’,
CR,
15.

134
:  ‘lip-smacking descriptions’,
CR,
32.

134
:  ‘three measures of Gordon’s …’,
CR,
36.

135
:  ‘Although he seemed to talk quite openly about his duties in Paris …’,
CR,
38.

135
:  ‘Marshall Aid.’,
CR,
61.

135
:  ‘That envelope was the most wonderful thing …’,
CR,
69.

136
:  ‘this country right or wrong business is getting a little out of date’,
CR,
102.

135
:  ‘Washington’s pretty sick we’re not running the show…’,
CR,
37.

136
:  ‘History is moving pretty quickly these days …’,
CR,
102.

137
:  ‘one of the highlights of the north coast season’,
Gleaner,
29 February 1952.

137
:  ‘It is frighteningly agreeable.’, AF to HC and VC, 15 March 1952, Amory, 110.

137
:  ‘a marvelous honeymoon …’, IF to VC and HC, 23 February 1952, Amory, 106.

138
:  ‘I shall wear long elbow gloves and give the bride away …’,
NC Letters,
573.

138
:  ‘We took our duties very seriously …’, Lesley,
The Life of Noël Coward,
310.

138
:  ‘an enormous oleograph of Churchill…’, Pearson, 208.

138
:  ‘a slimy green wedding cake …’, Pearson notes, interview with NC, 22 May 1965, Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library Pearson J. Mss.

139
:  ‘Surely one doesn’t dedicate books of this sort to people.’, Chancellor,
James Bond: the Man and his World,
237.

139
:  ‘tubes performing every physical function.’, AF to HC, 3 September 1952, Amory, 120.

139
:  ‘You have been wonderfully brave …’, IF to AF, August 1952, Amory, 119.

140
:  ‘as he considers himself responsible for the whole thing.’, AF to CB, 2 September 1952, Amory, 119.

141
:  ‘The game of Red Indians is over …’,
CR,
86–7.

141
:  ‘been reading too many novels of suspense …’,
DN,
353–4

141
:  ‘looked like a gangster in a horror-comic.’,
DF,
129.

141
:  ‘I could hardly believe it…’,
SLM,
143.

141
:  ‘the stuff of an adventure-strip ...’,
SS,
100.

141
:  ‘the best new thriller writer since Eric Ambler.’,
Sunday Times,
3 May 1963.

141
:  ‘Ian Fleming has discovered the secret of narrative art…’, Chancellor,
James Bond: the Man and his World,
25.

142
:  ‘Ian’s thriller starts well but ends as the most disgusting thing …’, Lycett, 244.

142
:  ‘the Doctor Birds are waiting in the Crown of Thorns bushes …’, Lycett, 236.

1953: The First Jamaica Novel –
Live and Let Die

143
:  ‘Caribbean reality resembles …’, Gabriel García Márquez interview in
Paris Review,
no.82, Winter 1981.

143
:  ‘This island is no stranger to distinguished visitors …’,
Gleaner,
29 December 1952.

144
:  ‘work on his memoirs’,
Gleaner,
12 January 1953.

144
:  ‘The doctors have advised me not to swim …’, Mitchell,
Spice of Life,
123.

145
:  ‘He selected the exact spot and went to work with a spade …’, Mitchell,
Spice of Life,
118.

145
:  ‘Great British Empire.’,
Gleaner,
19 May 1953.

146
:  ‘Britons made them feel like the uninvited they were …’,
Spotlight,
December 1953.

146
:  ‘in 1955, the figure would reach seventeen thousand …’, Hart,
The End of Empire,
341.

146
:  ‘magpie society and that would never do’, James Winton, ‘The Black experience in the Twentieth Century’ in Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins eds.,
Black Experience and the Empire,
(OUP, Oxford, 2004), 370.

146
:  ‘Keep Britain White.’, Ibid, 371.

146
:  ‘made no reference whatever to any of my political relatives’, Foot,
Start in Freedom,
124.

147
:  ‘the Communist movement in Jamaica’, Public Records Office, CO O859/425 File SSD 176/01, July-August 1953.

148
:  ‘fanatical opponent of communist.’, Foot,
Start,
136.

148
:  ‘Bustamante called for Communism to be banned by law …’,
Gleaner,
29 November 1952.

149
:  ‘shouts, screams and threats …’,
Public Opinion,
2 June 1952.

149
:  ‘when the Communist headquarters in Cuba …’,
LLD,
270.

150
:  ‘a cloak of verdure’, Bryce, 80.

150
:  ‘She was wearing brief shorts …’, AF to EW, 3 April 1953, Amory, 126.

150
:  ‘seemed to derive pleasure out of seeing them bow and scrape …’, Bret,
Errol Flynn Gentleman Hellraiser,
212.

151
:  ‘Where there is a party, the Commander make his Poor Man’s Thing.’, Pearson notes

151
:  ‘rich influential Portuguese Jews.’, Amory, 124.

152
:  ‘the world’s bloodiest boy …’, Lewis,
Cyril Connolly: a Life,
142–3.

152
:  ‘three black slaves’, AF to HC, 2 March 1953, Amory, 124.

151
:  ‘She asked me to one of those marvelous parties …’, Grieg,
Breakfast with Lucian,
105.

152
:  ‘ghastly’, Grieg,
Breakfast with Lucian,
106.