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Originally Posted by monster
snip~ Describing some physical characteristic helps -especially for negroes- like the nose or lips. Just in case the reader is unable to pictue a non-white. Which might have been a real concern when the book was written, but is now so uniumaginable (to me at least) that is makes the book "interesting".
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Keep in mind the throughout the whole Bond series, Fleming spends half the pages describing the most minute, arcane, and often boring, details. He can spend half a page on a doorknob. Almost like reading a screenplay with stage directions.
