James Bond’s namesake was an ornithologist, whose name appeared on a bird book that fortuitously caught Ian Fleming’s attention one day in 1953. The author explains; “I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened… When I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.”
The Dullest Name I Have Ever Heard
James Bond’s namesake was an ornithologist, whose name appeared on a bird book that fortuitously caught Ian Fleming’s attention one day in 1953. The author explains; “I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened… When I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, …