Fleming Tidbit in SF

Reading Moonraker--perhaps Fleming's greatest--last night, and struck upon a brief moment that was used in SF. Specifically, Bond, after giving Drax a right pranging in bridge at Blades the night before, and feeling like the dog's dinner the next day in his office at MI6, chews up a couple of Phensic tablets rather than have his secretary bring him a glass of water.

Something similar occurs in SF. To wit, Bond, after a night of scorpion-baiting and Latina-shagging, chomps down on a white pill or two the next morning and glares into the mirror.

Can't be coincidental. People simply do not chew up medicine rather than wash it down unless they're a bit soft in the head or unless they're James Bond.

Moonraker is indeed one of the best.
Nice catch, I never noticed that connection. I will say this, though. One can be a bit soft in the head AND be James Bond.

Heh. Good point, PC.

'Barely held together by pills and booze', as I believe Silva says to him later in the movie.

With the next Bond likely to be a millennial, he'll be treating his hangovers with blue Gatorade I suspect.

If "Bond" is black, he'll be swilling down purple drank instead of martinis.