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Query on who KA's Colonel Sun was based on (& on 1970 Pan cover art)?
I suppose that the famous Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen) was possibly where Kingsley Amis came up with the name but I was wondering what inspired Amis to...
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Anyone interested in this at all?
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Silhouette Man wrote:Anyone interested in this at all? I guess some are interested....I've never given any thought as to whom Amis based Sun on...doesn't mean I'm not interested...just I've never...
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I think in the late 60s, there was much trouble in Asia with Vietnam for exampleso a Chinese villian would have been fitting for the times. I can't think who it mighthave been based on ( if anyone).
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I'm of the same POV as Sir Miles: I'm not uninterested, but hadn't given it much thought. And I like the Pan cover very much.
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Also the reflection in the sun glasses was used in YOLT, showing thepaper with the news of Bond's death in them ? Any connection ?
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Hmm, the paperback of CS came out after the film of YOLT so maybe...? And doesn't the reflection of Bond look mighty like a shertain Shcottish shupershtar but in DAF- a good few years later?
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Apologies but I haven't visited for a few days. Although suffering from the grave disadvantage of not having read the book, I am of the opinion that CS may possibly be based upon Ho Chi Minh. At the...
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