Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica (51 page)

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 swimmer’, 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’.