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

by Matthew Parker

  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.

  184: ‘He had been a stage-gangster …’, DF, 241.

  184: ‘Mike Hammer routine …’, DF, 71.

  184: ‘That was quite an exit…’, DF, 232.

  185: ‘heart-sinking’, ‘How to write a Thriller’.

  185: ‘I baked a fresh cake in Jamaica …’, Pearson, 305ff.

  185: ‘As early as 1955 …’, Quennell, Wanton, 155.

  185: ‘Mr Fleming is splendid …’, advert in The Times, 28 April 1955.

  185: ‘It is utterly disgraceful…’, Benson, James Bond Bedside Companion, 11.

  185: ‘disappointment.’, TLS, 20 May 1955.

  185: ‘weakest book, a heavily padded story.’, TLS, 27 April 1956.

  186: ‘they had all the time in the world’, DF, 98.

  186: ‘Bond knew that he was very close to being in love with her.’, DF, 249.

  186: ‘handing round canapés …’, DF, 262–3.

  186: ‘Live and Let Die has the wind under its tail …’, Bryce, 103–4.

  186: ‘These dreadful Bond books.’, Harling, Vogue.

  186: ‘It is the best he has done yet…’, NC Diary, 23 January 1955.

  187: ‘The Commander was suffering greatly …’, Fionn Morgan, Spectator, 12 December 2008.

  187: ‘with great reluctance’, AF to HC, 14 February 1955, Amory, 150.

  188: ‘a very interesting man. Avery nice man ...’, Morris Cargill interview.

  188: ‘polishing up horror comic number four’, AF to Joan Raynor and Patrick Leigh Fermor, 27 March 1955, Amory, 153.

  188: ‘a peaceful and appreciative guest…’, AF to HC, 14 February 1955, Amory, 150.

  188: ‘Goldeneye was delightful ...’, Lycett, 267.

  188: ‘hated each other’, Mark Amory interview, 27 September 2013.

  188: ‘Evelyn wore blue silk pyjamas …’, AF to Joan Rayner and Patrick Leigh Fermor, 27 March 1955, Amory, 153.

  189: ‘I have watched him, a cigar in his mouth …’, Quennell, Sign, 240–1.

  189: ‘Jamaica is an odd island …’, EW to Auberon Waugh, 27 January 1955, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Amory, 438.

  190: ‘The Moscow Trojan horse has arrived in Jamaica …’, Gleaner, 12 March 1954.

  190: ‘but the Caribbean was ignored.’, Andrew, The KGB and the World, 28.

  191: as ‘always more skillful as a national psychiatrist than as a politician.’, Gleaner, 1 September 1954.

  191: ‘We have to stop being colonials and start being Jamaicans …’, Sherlock, Manley, 10.

  192: ‘I don’t see why me and the telephone operator …’, Pearl Flynn interview, 21 June 2013.

  192: ‘Jamaica in 1955 had come a long way …’, Cargill interview.

  192: ‘House of Issa’, Gleaner, 6 October 1951.

  192: ‘political awakening must and always goes hand in hand …’, quoted in Arnold, A History of Literature in the Caribbean, 336.

  193: ‘the dead hand of colonialism’, Manley, Introduction to Three Novels of Roger Mais, (Jonathan Cape, London, 1966).

  193: ‘The umbilicus which attached…’, Gleaner, 1 September 1954.

  193: ‘Jamaica is a coloured island …’, NC Diary, 15 January 1955, 254.

  193: ‘The only complaint…’, Public Opinion, 24 February 1955.

  193: ‘dead gone on’ the Princess …, Daily Herald, Texas, 18 April 1957.

  194: ‘whatever the magic that attaches to a throne …’, Edna Manley Diary, 2 April 1955, 48.

  194: ‘The populace would dearly love to see the pretty Princess …’, Daily Herald, Texas, 18 April 1957.

  1956: From Russia, with Love

  195: ‘Doesn’t do to get mixed up with neurotic women …’, RWL, 85.

  195: ‘the novel Fleming was most proud of’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.

  195: ‘continue to forge everywhere stealthily ahead …’, RWL, 30.

  196: ‘the trouble today is that carrots for all are the fashion …’, RWL, 141.

  196: ‘conspicuous act of terrorism’, RWL, 29.

  197: ‘featherbedded’, TC, 146.

  197: ‘all the money and equipment…’, RWL, 123.

  197: ‘taste for adventure …’, DS, 41.

  197: ‘In my quest for a moral institution …’, New York Review of Books, 6 June 2013.

  197: ‘loved the firm ...’, Le Carré, Perfect Spy, 621.

  197: ‘He’s a romantic at heart...’, MGG, 186.

  198: ‘who is admired and whose ignominious destruction …’, RWL, 38–9.

  198: ‘the result of a midnight union …’, RWL, 1.

  198: ‘a cheerful, voluble giant of villainous aspect’, Sunday Times, 9 January 1955.

  198: ‘their brutality, their carelessness …’, RWL, 16.

  198: ‘the colonial peoples, the negroes.’, RWL, 23.

  198: ‘the excitement and turmoil of the hot war.’, RWL, 176.

  198: ‘Cecil Beaton’s war-time photograph of Winston Churchill…’, RWL, 101.

  198: ‘Careful, old man. No tricks …’, RWL, 190.

  199: ‘I love scratching away with my paintbrush …’,AF to EW, 13 January 1956, Amory, 172—3.

  199: ‘Very sad without you …’, IF to AF, January 1956, Amory, 173.

  199: ‘our wonderful lives at Goldeneye …’, AF to IF, 25 January 1956, Amory, 174.

  200: ‘Can you imagine a more incongruous playmate …’, AF to IF, 16 February 1962, Amory, 176.

  200: ‘another ugly house …’, Hoare, Noël Coward, 421.

  200: ‘His Firefly house is near-disaster …’, IF to AF, 11 February 1956, Amory, 175.

  201: ‘the most beautiful I have seen in the world …’, Sunday Times, 1 April 1956.

  201: ‘the soft enchantments of the tropic reed ...’, Sunday Times, 8 April 1956.

  202: ‘the most intoxicating landscape …’, Ibid.

  202: ‘I thought I should be polite and invite him for a drink …’, Ranston, Lindo Legacy, 121.

  203: ‘She is joyful …’, Bryce, 135.

  203: ‘You’re not another lesbian, are you?’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 13 March 2012.

  203: ‘Loved the English ….’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

  203: ‘near a middle-aged Jewess.’, Lycett, 285.

  203: ‘thirtyish, Jewish …’, Lycett, 178.

  204: ‘almost as firm and rounded as a boy’s.’, DN, 276.

  204: ‘behind that jutted out like a man’s …’, RWL, 58.

  204: ‘I’m very strange!’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.

  204: ‘completely charming’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 13 March 2012.

  204: ‘quite a pleasant neighbour.’, Lycett, 285.

  204: ‘took to the sea.’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 16 February 2012.

  205: ‘a fine swim
mer’, Bryce, 135.

  206: ‘We became friends’, Barrington Roper interview, 23 August 2013.

  206: ‘never saw anyone …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 22 January 2014.

  208: ‘free from pain’, AF to DC, 24 January 1956, Amory 171.

  208: ‘He complains of greater exhaustion …’, Pearson 335.

  208: ‘drinking a great deal’, Raymond O’Neill interview, 13 May 2013.

  208: ‘few men could have survived it.’, CR, 97.

  208: ‘strong and compact and confident’, LLD, 170.

  208: ‘the best shot in the service.’, MR, 37.

  208: ‘he is in pretty good shape.’, DF, 18.

  208–209: ‘The blubbery arms of the soft life …’, RWL, 77.

  209: is ‘restless and indecisive.’, RWL, 82.

  209: ‘The soul sickens of it…’, RWL, 22.

  209: ‘I drink and smoke too much …’, RWL, 112.

  209: ‘My muse is in a bad way …’, Lycett, 291–2.

  209: ‘He decided to add a final twist…’, Griswold, Ian Fleming’s James Bond, 197.

  209: ‘Bond pivoted slowly …’, RWL, 208.

  209: ‘One boasted the leader of the Opposition …’, AF to EW, 4 April 1956, Amory, 182.

  209: ‘gentle and loving’, Brivati, Hugh Gaitskell, 246.

  210: ‘showed him the pleasures of upper class frivolity’, Thorpe, Eden, 441.

  210: ‘Mr Gaitskell came to lunch …’, AF to EW, 24 November 1956, Amory, 189.

  210: ‘he was furious about Ann’s infidelity.’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 17 April 2013.

  211: ‘to safeguard the life of the British Empire.’, Daily Express, 1 November 1956.

  211: ‘consulting the Americans’, Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 505.

  211: ‘toothless, immoral and anachronistic’, Cannadine, Churchill’s Shadow, 269.

  211: ‘the psychological watershed …’, Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 504.

  212: ‘good old imperialism’, NC Letters, 29 November 1956, 626–8.

  212: ‘In the whole of modern history …’, Pearson, 349.

  213: ‘Sunshine Trip’, Thorpe, Eden, 535.

  213: ‘The Daily Mirror ran a competition …’, Brivati, Hugh Gaitskell, 284.

  213: ‘She seemed disconcerted …’, AF to EW, 24 November 1956, Amory, 188–9.

  214: ‘The Commander told me someone is coming …’, Pearson notes.

  215: ‘yesterday’s Daily Express will mean a permanent breach …’, AF to EW, 24 November 1956, Amory, 189.

  215: ‘the hibiscus was in full bloom …’, Gleaner, 24 November 1956.

  215: ‘punching up my faded cushions …’, Pearson, 349.

  215: ‘No, Lady, I obey my Commander.’, Pearson, 348.

  215: who had played and sung at the Edens’ house during the war … , Thorpe, Eden, 330.

  215: ‘Anything I could see in fact that might mitigate the horrors …’, Pearson, 348.

  216: ‘Jamaica the Garden of Eden …’, Thorpe, Eden, 535.

  216: ‘A complete inertia has overcome us …’, CE to AF, Lycett, 305.

  217: ‘Fairly well authenticated rumours …’, NC Letters, 626.

  218: ‘rather fretting at being out ofEngland!’, Ibid.

  218: ‘to find everyone looking at us with very thoughtful eyes’, Thorpe, Eden, 544.

  1957: Jamaica Under Threat – Dr No

  219: ‘I feel horribly insecure ...’, ’Volcano’ unpublished script, Act 1:Scene 2:33

  220: ‘vast living-room ‘Volcano’, 1:1:15.

  220: ‘his own private bachelor paradise.’, ‘Volcano’, 1:1:21.

  220: ‘sex ego too strongly developed …’, ‘Volcano’, 2:2:36.

  220: ‘lively as a cricket.’, ‘Volcano’, 1:1:5.

  220: ‘might have been just that exception.’, ‘Volcano’, 2:2:37.

  221: ‘No. I’m not going to pretend anything …’, ‘Volcano’, 1:2:41.

  221: ‘physical passion we had for each other …’, ‘Volcano’, 1:2:42.

  221: ‘Yes. I do love him …’, “Volcano’, 2:2:40.

  222: ‘seasickness, rheumatism and neuralgia …’, AF to EW, 19 January 1957, Amory, 191–2.

  223: ‘luxurious Jamaican residence’, Time, 5 May 1958.

  223: ‘extremely primitive …’, Raymond O’Neill interview, 13 May 2013.

  223: ‘An octopus was found …’, ‘My Friend the Octopus’, Sunday Times, 24 March 1957.

  223: ‘the most amazing wildlife flew in …’, Raymond O’Neill interview, 13 May 2013.

  223: ‘wildly excited when he saw a scorpion.’, Fionn Morgan interview, 24 January 2013.

  223: ‘He’s a fine little boy …’, Gleaner, 20 September 1964.

  224: ‘Noël-y and Coley, Binkie and Perry.’, Raymond O’Neill interview, 13 May 2013.

  224: ‘She was a tomboy kind of girl, really,’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

  225: ‘One of the most important things he said to me …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 13 March 2012.

  225: ‘He was a charming, handsome, gifted man …’, Thomson, Dead Yard, 233.

  225: ‘truly great man.’, Cundall, HistoricJamaica, 260.

  226: ‘It was the most ghastly sea bottom I had ever explored …’, Sunday Times, 7 April 1957.

  226: ‘Wished you didn’t mind aeroplanes …’, Lycett, 309.

  227: ‘You don’t make a great deal of money from royalties …’, ‘How to Write a Thriller’.

  227: ‘would be an excellent labour boss and general fixer’, Lycett, 297.

  227: ‘Dr No was very cardboardy and need not have been … ‘, Chancellor, James Bond: the Man and his World, 111.

  228: ‘something easy to start with …’, DN, 221.

  228: ‘was welcomed with deference because his reservation …’, DN, 241.

  229: ‘the setting sun flashed gold on the bright worms of tumbling rivers …’, DN, 236.

  229: ‘smelled the dung of the mule train ...’, DN, 267.

  229: ‘melancholy of the tropical dusk.’, DN, 271.

  229: ‘The Riders were one of the old Jamaica families ...’, DN, 303.

  230: ‘She had no inhibitions …’, DN, 402.

  230: ‘protecting the security of the British Empire’, DF, 88.

  230: ‘its Kensington Palace Gardens, its Avenue D’Iéna …’, DN, 211.

  231: the steward is ‘coloured.’, DN, 213.

  231: ‘well run, well staffed ...’, DN, 212.

  232: ‘Unfortunately, strict patterns of behavior can be deadly …’, DN, 214.

  232: ‘would not have been incongruous in Kingston …’, DN, 213.

  232: ‘Splendid show. What a lark!’, DN, 252–3.

  233: ‘Bond grinned at him. This was more like it…’, DN, 253.

  233: the immigration official is ‘Negro’, DN, 237.

  233: ‘delves well below the surface …’, DN, 257.

  234: ‘an inappropriate wing collar and spotted bow tie’, DN, 250.

  234: ‘sex and machete fights’, DN, 230.

  234: ‘There were plenty of other worries …’, DN, 231.

  235: ‘slim funds of the Secret Service’, DN, 235.

  235: trying for years to get the Treasury …’, DN, 234.

  235: ‘Nowadays, softness was everywhere.’, DN, 222.

  236: ‘scathing about Liberia … The first Negro State …’, DS, 104.

  236: ‘drift, weak local government…’, DS, 106.

  236: ‘unimpressed by relics from the Edwardian era …’, DN, 395.

  1958–60: Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball

  238: ‘The man from the Central Intelligence Agency …’, TB, 168.

  239: ‘tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale.’, TLS, 12 April 1957.

  239: ‘Peter Cheyney for the carriage trade’, Chancellor, James Bond: the Man and his World, 43.

  239: ‘In hard covers
my books are written for …’, Pearson, 355.

  240: ‘Fleming rarely rises above the glossy prose …’, The Twentieth Century, March 1958.

  240: ‘Sex, Snobbery and Sadism’, New Statesman, 5 April 1958.

  240: ‘flick-knife remarks’, Harling, Vogue.

  241: ‘At that party I felt it was a whole lot of children …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 13 March 2012.

  241: ‘Ian is a subtle bitch …’, Lycett, 314—15.

  241: ‘One of the great sadnesses is the failure to make someone happy.’, Lycett, 323.

  241: ‘arrived in a tempest… ‘, IF to AF, January 1958, Amory, 211–12.

  242: ‘I used to come down to swim at twelve o’clock …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 17 April 2013.

  242: ‘She was really in love with Ian Fleming ...’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.

  242: ‘I’m terribly worried about your health ...’, IF to AF, 20 January 1958, Amory, 213.

  243: ‘a floating, boozy bum’, David Niven, Bring on the Empty Horses, (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1975), 123.

  243: ‘even with his forked tongue sticking right through his cheek …’, Observer, 22 March 1959.

  243: ‘the foundation of our international credit’, GF, (Penguin omnibus ed. 2002), 451.

  244: ‘the cruellest, most ruthless people in the world.’, GF, 512.

  244: ‘It was modern piracy …’, GF, 590.

  244: ‘Who in America cared …’, GF, 610.

  245: an annual growth rate of eight per cent., Wallace, The British Caribbean, 129–30.

  245: Manley was forced to admit that the rich had got richer, but the poor poorer., Sewell, Culture and Decolonization, 116.

  246: ‘(1) To impress the United Nations …’, Fraser, Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism, 140–1.

  246: ‘As colonial ties with Britain are loosened …’, Portsmouth Herald, 1 May 1958.

  247: ‘a bird-brain. His attention span was about ten seconds.’, Cargill,Jamaica Farewell, 160.

  247: ‘In the Commonwealth and Empire …’, David Killingray ed., The West Indies (British Documents on the End of Empire), (The Stationery Office, London, 1999), 210.

  247: ‘Having visited Jamaica for twelve years …’, Lycett, 319.

  247: ‘flotsam and jetsam of our receding empire’, Lycett, 335.

  248: ‘Communists creeping in from Ceylon …’, SS, 148.

  248: ‘underwater ace’, SS, 147.

  248: ‘Champion harpoon-gun’, SS, 144.

  248: ‘finest damned yacht in the Indian Ocean.’, SS, 146