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   From: noone@invalid.com   
      
   Paul S. Person pretended :   
      
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   > Thus, /Octopussy/ uses only the novel's title and the main character   
   > (Bond) of the short story, It has the female lead tell the short   
   > story, and so in that sense is "based on" the short story, but it   
   > certainly does not adapt it in any way. It tells a completely   
   > different story.   
      
   From memory, the bit about the crossbow being used to kill a bad guy   
   also came from a different short story in the same book.  I believe a   
   third of the short stories was used as the basis for /The Living   
   Daylights/.   
      
   > The more recent use of the title /Quantum of Solace/ may be another   
   > example; unfortunately, all I remember of the short story is that it   
   > was excrusciatingly dull. Then again, maybe not remembering any more   
   > isn't all that unfortunate, if it really is all that dull.   
      
   Bond is in Jamaica, and listens to the High Commisioner tell a story   
   about a marriage breakdown.  It actually isn't that bad, but it isn't   
   an action adventure story.   
      
      
      
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