![]() ![]() ![]() James Bond kept the thoughts of his character concealed, allowing this cool and calculating persona to be built through action. ![]() ‘It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed,’ he said. Landing on a reference book, Birds of the West Indies, he happened to notice that the author was none other than the ornithologist James Bond. One afternoon, with the breeze gently blowing through the jalousie windows, Fleming’s eyes wandered about the room in search of inspiration. He was at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, a secluded and sprawling compound where, when not writing, his preferred leisure was birdwatching - a term that in British intelligence slang also means ‘spying’. When Ian Fleming sat down to write his first spy serial, he wanted to give his protagonist what he described as ‘the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name’ he could find. ![]()
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