Post by jestertor on Aug 31, 2009 8:54:06 GMT -5
IT'S DEE TIME - AGAIN!
During the reign of the first Elizabeth an empire of enormous significance was consolidated. One of her most eminent and more shadowy advisors was a certain John Dee, a dabbler in magic and all manner of sixteenth century weirdness. His code number was 007.
During the reign of the second Elizabeth an empire of enormous significance was ostensibly dismantled. One of the most eminent public figures was a certain Simon Dee, a dabbler in media and all manner of twentieth century weirdness. He too has some relation to the number 007.
Ok, only insofar that he was invited to audition for the role of James Bond at the height of his celebrity, and that his career plummeted after interviewing George Lazenby (who took the opportunity to point the finger at various Senators for complicity in the JFK assassination) on his prime-time TV chat show.
Lazenby ‘starred’ as Bond in ‘On Her Majesty's Secret Service’, one of the higher smelling varieties in a distinctly cheesy franchise.
Fleming, Bond's creator, is probably even more opaque than his history suggests. I have read compelling evidence detailing how he headed up a team to extract Martin Bormann (the banker) out of Berlin in 1945 and set him up in England before exporting him to south America in the fifties.
I know that as a species we are programmed to perceive patterns. And that there are patterns within patterns. And that some patterns are gleefully paraded before us to baffle and bemuse.
Let us remember Simon, and now, let us give thanks to jarv...
Amen.
During the reign of the first Elizabeth an empire of enormous significance was consolidated. One of her most eminent and more shadowy advisors was a certain John Dee, a dabbler in magic and all manner of sixteenth century weirdness. His code number was 007.
During the reign of the second Elizabeth an empire of enormous significance was ostensibly dismantled. One of the most eminent public figures was a certain Simon Dee, a dabbler in media and all manner of twentieth century weirdness. He too has some relation to the number 007.
Ok, only insofar that he was invited to audition for the role of James Bond at the height of his celebrity, and that his career plummeted after interviewing George Lazenby (who took the opportunity to point the finger at various Senators for complicity in the JFK assassination) on his prime-time TV chat show.
Lazenby ‘starred’ as Bond in ‘On Her Majesty's Secret Service’, one of the higher smelling varieties in a distinctly cheesy franchise.
Fleming, Bond's creator, is probably even more opaque than his history suggests. I have read compelling evidence detailing how he headed up a team to extract Martin Bormann (the banker) out of Berlin in 1945 and set him up in England before exporting him to south America in the fifties.
I know that as a species we are programmed to perceive patterns. And that there are patterns within patterns. And that some patterns are gleefully paraded before us to baffle and bemuse.
Let us remember Simon, and now, let us give thanks to jarv...
Amen.