My name is Cliff, HeathCliff

Reading the news these days is an endless experience in weird Brontë quotes. We have seen strange connections with the Bush family, King Kong (no political comments intended), Molière, Memoirs of a Geisha... the last one presents two Brontë heroes (Rochester and Heathcliff) tracing parallelisms with no less than James Bond himself.

The Australian has printed an excerpt of Henry Chancellor's new book on James Bond works of Ian Fleming "License to intoxicate" and we have read the following:

What Ian Fleming added to this standard saturnine male was a dangerous coldness (note the scars: this man likes fighting) and a solitary, enigmatic nature.
Kingsley Amis, writing in the early '60s, identified Bond as the natural successor to Heathcliff and Mr Rochester: a kind of Byronic hero who is out of sorts with the world.

Kingsley Amis was the author of "The James Bond Dossier", a critical analysis of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.

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