Your approach to the short stories leads me to wonder if you'll do the same with the later James Bond Jr cartoon. If indeed you're going to include it in your marathon.
Bond hiring an escort seems absolutely in character to me. He is a man who enjoys his little pleasures, but he’s also a realist and efficient. It’s no different to Bond than getting his suit cleaned or car valeted.
I always looked at it as more like he knows that he’s probably not gonna live much longer (because of his drinking and smoking and his job) so he’ll enjoy it as much as he can.
Looking ahead: there's a popular trope claiming that "007 in New York" was an "unfinished" story. I think it's pretty clear that it's not. A story that repeatedly tells us that "New York has got everything," clearly pays off with that ending. Just my two cents.
Your approach to the short stories leads me to wonder if you'll do the same with the later James Bond Jr cartoon. If indeed you're going to include it in your marathon.
Bond hiring an escort seems absolutely in character to me. He is a man who enjoys his little pleasures, but he’s also a realist and efficient. It’s no different to Bond than getting his suit cleaned or car valeted.
I always looked at it as more like he knows that he’s probably not gonna live much longer (because of his drinking and smoking and his job) so he’ll enjoy it as much as he can.
Looking ahead: there's a popular trope claiming that "007 in New York" was an "unfinished" story. I think it's pretty clear that it's not. A story that repeatedly tells us that "New York has got everything," clearly pays off with that ending.
Just my two cents.
I’d like to think that it is because Fleming wrote in his book “thrilling cities” some not so flattering comments about New York.