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| Subject: Re: Commercial Fiction and Bond Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:27 pm | |
| - Secret Treaties wrote:
- [I think a prosaic and vulgar description for hitting the gas pedal is quite appropriate.
Appropriate perhaps for Mickey Spillane, but not Ian Fleming. "Stomped on the gas pedal" is a bland Americanisation, and wouldn't sit well with the rest of Fleming's prose. The original with its adverb is typical Fleming. |
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