“May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (1956)

Re:“May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (... by quelltext on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:59AM (#22914301)

What surprised me most is that he presented himself as the biographer of James Bond, as if he were real. I wasn't aware of that history.

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Re:“May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (... by ztjio on Sunday April 19, 2020 @05:31AM (#22914632)

It's a writer's technique somewhat similar to method actors who take on the character's persona as their own for the duration of a play or filming. It's almost like attempting to evoke in yourself a synthetic form of dissociative identity disorder to allow a "real" personality to live and grown independently of you while you interact with and guide it towards the outcome you're hoping for.

Pretty much as far from "kill your darlings" as one can get, tbh.

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Re:“May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (... by TeMPOraL on Sunday April 19, 2020 @08:15AM (#22915363)

> Pretty much as far from "kill your darlings" as one can get, tbh.

Forking your own thinking process to have a secondary personality execute in parallel sounds as close to "killing your darlings" as possible, given that personality would presumably have their own favorite expressions and tropes.

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