"Delusions of grandeur are a continuing hazard. Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, invented a parallel universe of secret British greatness and glamour, and fabricated an icon who has outlived his maker — Bond, James Bond — “martini-shaken not stirred” — babe-puller extraordinary, wielder of hubristic gadgetry, his evolution encapsulates the trajectory of the Conservative movement, British upper class attitudes toward sex, the monarchy and America. It was an escapist conflation of fantasy and ego in an intellectual void, epitaph on a ghostly past."
Rule the waves, did you say?
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