Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica

by Matthew Parker

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.

  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 a
nd 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.