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but it is the first duty of a Secret Service to remain not only secret but secure.
The past could be forgiven, but not forgotten – except with the passage of time.
Is an insatiable but indiscriminate womanizer who invariably has sexual intercourse shortly before a killing in the belief that it improves his “eye”. (N.B. a belief shared by many professional lawn tennis players, golfers, gun and rifle marksmen and others.)
I am inclined to agree, that the pistol, whether in the hands of an amateur or of a professional gunman, has significance for the owner as a symbol of virility – an extension of the male organ – and that excessive interest in guns (e.g. gun collections and gun clubs) is a form of fetishism.
“In the vast array of things man has invented to better his condition, few have fascinated him more than the gun. Its function is simple; as Oliver Winchester said, with Nineteenth Century complacency, ‘A gun is a machine for throwing balls.’ But its ever-increasing efficiency in performing this task, and its awesome ability to strike home from long range, have given it tremendous psychological appeal.
“For possession of a gun and the skill to use it enormously augments the gunner’s personal power, and extends the radius of his influence and effect a thousand times beyond his arm’s length. And since strength resides in the gun, the man who wields it may be less than strong without being disadvantaged.
Perhaps more than any other implement, the gun has shaped the course of nations and the destiny of men.” ’
It certainly owned the property by right of strength and adornment.
‘Mister, there’s something quite extra about the smell of death. Care to try it?’
The first law for a secret agent is to get his geography right, his means of access and exit, and assure his communications with the outside world.
The best drink in the day is just before the first one
forgot his worries in the high endeavours of great men.
He decided that he was either too old or too young for the worst torture of all, boredom,
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At the same time, he knew, deep down, that love from Mary Goodnight, or from any other woman, was not enough for him. It would be like taking ‘a room with a view’. For James Bond, the same view would always pall.
