On different occasions, Dominic Flandry:
plans to celebrate his twenty fifth birth-week in the company of three young women, starting with a well-planned menu at Everest House (on Mount Everest?);
spends three months at a perpetual banquet and fights a duel;
spends a month with his son, hiking in the Great Rift on Mars, gambling in a miners' dive in Low Venusberg, flying through the rings of Saturn and dining on Iapetus with two expensive and expert women.
James Bond swims in the Seychelles where he harpoons a sting-ray and, in another story, really just a magazine advertisement, we are told where 007 eats, drinks, sleeps etc in New York.
Fleming wrote a non-Secret Service short story about Bond's experience in the Seychelles and we wish that Anderson had written more about Flandry's vacations.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
At least in A STONE IN HEAVEN we see Dominic Flandry's apartment in Archopolis. And he also owned a cabin and a few hectares of land in the High Sierra of North America, when he wanted to really take a vacation in privacy.
Sean
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