“surely the capitalist puppetmaster is too suave and sophisticated to believe this rabblerousing bullshit—” Comrade I am asking you to imagine that a lot of money does not make a man any better and in fact may help him get worse.

Congratulations! It was wonderful to see you. We’ll talk more next time!

VERY good point. he fits right in because he gets the attitude right

put on the bow tie

Congratulations! Sounds great!

(the thumbnail on the link is the cover of my new novel, DEAD HAND RULE. It has a young woman with a serpent, rising toward an upside-down city)

Well, that and the fact that Bond kind of has to be a public school / Oxbridge man, but maybe Rassilon de-aged somehow during the War

The only obstacles to this theory were limits on regeneration that, I am given to understand, have since been abolished

Viv's a similar sort of... limit-testing problem. "Let's imagine someone who actually IS in the weight class these people spend lots of marketing dollars pretending to occupy. Could THAT person be a force for good in the universe?" in the sense that no one is ever entirely beyond salvation maybe

Ish was about as big as I could imagine someone getting in that scene without /immediately/ welcoming the Hat--and it matters *when* the book is set, too. I think that getting back on the road was his salvation--he would have been as cooked as anyone if he stayed