Where did Rosemary Rosamond get all her power? Her mother is Mary Magdalene Rosamond. Some women authors say Mary had more power than Jesus, and was the force to be reckoned with. I just redicovered the idea that Ian Fleming was influenced by Poe. “When James Bond dreamt of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe seems an unlikely influence on Ian Fleming’s writing, but the 19th-century poet, story-teller, and master of the macabre nevertheless made his mark in the James Bond novels.
Ian Fleming mentions Poe three times in the Bond novels. There is one reference in Moonraker (1955); Fleming compares the ominous ticking inside the Moonraker rocket before launch to “the beating heart in Poe’s story” (probably ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ (1843), in which “the beating of the old man’s heart…increased my fury, as the beating of the drum stimulates the soldier into courage”).
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