{"id":42336,"date":"2012-11-26T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T17:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=42336"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:45:29","slug":"bond-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/bond-james-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond. James Bond."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/james-bond-ornitho_1403072c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42337\" title=\"james-bond-ornitho_1403072c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/james-bond-ornitho_1403072c-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/james-bond-ornitho_1403072c-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/james-bond-ornitho_1403072c.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\ufeffJames Bond was a well-known ornithologist. His <em>Birds of the West Indies<\/em> is an unusually rich source of names. According to Bond, the Sooty Tern is also known as the Egg Bird; Booby; Bub\u00ed; Hurricane Bird; Gaviota Oscura; Gaviota Monja; Oiseau Fou; Touaou. But when the keen birdwatcher Ian Fleming needed a name that sounded as ordinary as possible, he had to look no further than the title page of Bond\u2019s great  work. Why does the name of an actual ornithologist sound so right as the name of a fictional spy? Why couldn\u2019t Fleming have used another pair of  common monosyllables\u2014John Clark, say? Bond is a solid, blue-chip, faith-giving kind of a name. Who wouldn\u2019t prefer a government Bond under their mattress (we\u2019re talking AAA British) to a petty clerk? Is your word your clerk? I don\u2019t think so. Bond. It\u2019s in the name.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014Colin Burrow,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v34\/n22\/colin-burrow\/i-lowborn-cur\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>London Review of Books<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffJames Bond was a well-known ornithologist. His Birds of the West Indies is an unusually rich source of names. According to Bond, the Sooty Tern is also known as the Egg Bird; Booby; Bub\u00ed; Hurricane Bird; Gaviota Oscura; Gaviota Monja; Oiseau Fou; Touaou. 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