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The Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station in New York provided Fleming with his best meal in America. The oyster stew he liked so
The Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station in New York provided Fleming with his best meal in America. The oyster stew he liked so
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The Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station in New York provided Fleming with his best meal in America. The oyster stew he liked so much is made separately for each customer; part of the charm of the place is to observe the off-hand expertise of the silent chefs as they stir the oysters, the cream, the Worcester sauce, the paprika, bring them to the boil and allow them to simmer before slipping the rich, white-foamed, sea-scented stew into your private bowl.
Fleming usually came here on his own for a solitary treat, as he did at the beginning of March, 1953, just after he had written his second novel. He had a title for it already--Live and Let Die and was particularly pleased because it had taken him twelve days fewer to write than Casino Royale and was 12,000 words longer. As he sat there finishing his stew and sipping his beer, he had his first chance since he had left Jamaica to read through the last few chapters. He was pleased and still slightly surprised at what he had done.
For in this new book he had gone one vital step beyond Casino Royale. There he had drawn on the past, it was a nostalgic book, but now he had discovered a way of making life itself fit into his dream, of seeing the present through the eyes of James Bond and then working it back into the plot in any shape he wanted. Suddenly in this book James Bond became a means for Fleming of observing the world around and of making it more truly his than it had ever been before. For instance, his own arrival in New York had been spoiled by finding that the wrong car had been sent to meet him. Now he had put the whole mistake right with that splendid arrival scene of James Bond’s at Idlewild. He did Bond proud: he was met by an official of the U. S. Department of Justice, sidestepping Customs and Immigration, offered a thousand dollars spending money, and chauffeured away to the best hotel in New York.
As a fictional character Bond remains shadowy and unreal. It is almost impossible to visualize him; the only time we catch a glimpse of the physical Bond is when he looks in a mirror and then we see how closely Fleming identifies himself with his hero. The black hair, and high cheekbones, and gray-blue eyes are unmistakable. The other characters are basically the same as in all the other books: Mr. Big remains the same lumbering and obscene father-figure as Le Chiffre, and Solitaire the same insufferable bed-fellow as Vesper Lynd. But the tone of zest and enjoyment makes this the most engaging of all his novels.
In the story, the official of the U. S. Department of Justice ______.
选项
A、gave Bond permission not to go through Customs and Immigration
B、gave him 1,000 dollars pocket money
C、took him in his car to the best hotel in New York
D、was more helpful than is possible in real life
答案
D
解析
见文章第三段结尾。
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