In a letter to be auctioned this month,the 007 author writes that Goldfinger’s lesbian esteem interest only needed ‘the right man’A letter in which Ian Fleming asserts that his lesbian Bond girl Pussy Galore “only needed the right man to come along … to cure her psycho-pathological malady” will be sold at auction later this month.
The letter, which is also included in the just-published collection of Fleming’s James Bond letters, and The Man With the Golden Typewriter,was written in response to a Dr Gibson. Gibson had written to Fleming that while he enjoyed Goldfinger, “although not a psycho-pathologist, or I assume it is slightly naughty of you to change a criminal Lesbian into a clinging honey-bun (to be bottled by Bond) in the final chapter”.
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Source: theguardian.com