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under the chin" completes the appearance of a sexually neuter person. |
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In From Russia, With Love, there occurs a variant that is discernible only in a few other novels. There enters also upon the scene a strongly drawn being who has many of the moral qualities of the Villain, but uses them in the end for good, or at least fights on the side of Bond. An example is Darko Kerim, the Turkish agent in From Russia, With Love. Analogous to him are Tiger Tanaka, the head of the Japanese secret service in You Only Live Twice, Draco in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Enrico Colombo in "Risico" (a story in For Your Eyes Only), andpartiallyQuarrel in Dr. No. They are at the same time representative of the Villain and of M, and we shall call them "ambiguous representatives'. With these Bond always stands in a kind of competitive alliance: he likes them and hates them at the same time, he uses them and admires them, he dominates them and is their slave. |
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In Dr. No the Villain, besides his great height, is characterized by the lack of hands, which are replaced by two metal pincers. His shaved head has the appearance of a reversed raindrop; his skin is clear, without wrinkles; the cheekbones are as smooth as fine ivory; his eyebrows are dark as though painted on; his eyes are without eyelashes and look "like the mouths of two small revolvers"; his nose is thin and ends very close to his mouth, which shows only cruelty and authority. |
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In Goldfinger the eponymous character is a textbook monsterthat is, he is characterized by a lack of proportion: "He was short, not more than five feet tall, and on top of the thick body and blunt, peasant legs was set, almost directly into the shoulders, a huge and it seemed exactly round head. It was as if Goldfinger had been put together with bits of other people's bodies. Nothing seemed to belong." His vicarious figure is that of the Korean, Oddjob, who, with fingers like spatulas and fingertips like solid bone, could smash the wooden balustrade of a staircase with a karate blow. |
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In Thunderball there appears for the first time Ernst Starvo Blofeld, who crops up again in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and in You Only Live Twice, where in the end he dies. As his vicarious incarnations we have in Thunderball Count Lippe and Emilio Largo: both are handsome and personable, however vulgar and cruel, and their monstrosity is purely mental. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service there appear Irma Blunt, the longamanus of Blofeld, a distant reincarnation of Rosa Klebb, and a series of Villains in outline who perish tragically, killed by an avalanche or by a train. In You Only Live Twice, the primary role is resumed by Blofeld, already described in Thunderball: a child-like gaze from eyes that resemble two deep pools, surrounded "like the eyes of Mussolini" by clear whites, eyes having the symmetry and silken black lashes that recall the eyes of a doll; a mouth like a badly healed wound under a heavy |
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