@absurdlyobfuscated@poa.st @dissidentsoaps@poa.st I haven't read any of the original James Bond fiction since the 1970s, but that sure sounds like the opposite of Ian Fleming's style, which also didn't feature bald info dumps of that sort. Compare to the memorable section when CIA agent and friend Felix Leiter briefed Bond on the situation in Live and Let Die (if you've seen the movie, it was remarkably faithful to the original after some really prior wild excesses) while he was driving him from the airport as I recall, and the title's maxim was a correction Leiter made to the old "live and let live" trope. This will only be remembered as how you don't write such fiction if you want anyone to read it.