![]() ![]() “People are islands,” she said, “They don’t really touch. When that happened he knew that he too would be branded with the deadly question-mark he recognized so often in others, the promise to pay before you have lost: the acceptance of fallibility. One day, and he accepted the fact, he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. ![]() And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is mistaking bad play for bad luck. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. The dealer called out the hands in French, so knowing the French numbers was advantageous.Īt any rate, here are some of the, in my opinion, more memorable quotes from the book. ![]() Fleming drops quite a bit of French in it, especially during the scenes where Bond and Le Chiffre are dualing at the Baccarat table. I recently took an introductory course in conversational French, and that knowledge proved helpful for reading this book. It is the first of the James Bond books that he wrote, although the movie chronology is quite a bit different from the book chronology. I just finished reading Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. ![]()
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