Will Once
James Coburn starred in a couple of films about an American version of James Bond called Derek Flint - "Our man Flint" and "In like Flint". In one of them there is a scene where the inevitable megalomaniac bad guys describe their motives for taking over the world. They want to end wars, fight poverty and pursue peace. They challenge Flint to disagree with their motives. Why not join them?
Flint, naturally, wants nothing to do with their world domination plans. And before long he has destroyed their organisation by blowing up the also inevitable volcano.
And that got me thinking. Why do we always assume that it would be a bad thing if someone wanted to take over the world? What if they wanted to do it for benign reasons? What if the James Bond or Derek Flint character was wrong to try to stop them?
So I wrote "Global Domination for Beginners" as a gentle spoof of the Bond/ Bourne/ Flint/ Austin Powers genre.
It is told from the first person perspective of the megalomaniac bad guy ... who turns out to be not such a bad guy after all.
Flint, naturally, wants nothing to do with their world domination plans. And before long he has destroyed their organisation by blowing up the also inevitable volcano.
And that got me thinking. Why do we always assume that it would be a bad thing if someone wanted to take over the world? What if they wanted to do it for benign reasons? What if the James Bond or Derek Flint character was wrong to try to stop them?
So I wrote "Global Domination for Beginners" as a gentle spoof of the Bond/ Bourne/ Flint/ Austin Powers genre.
It is told from the first person perspective of the megalomaniac bad guy ... who turns out to be not such a bad guy after all.
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Scott Smialkowski
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Will Once:
I came across a blog with a discussion you were having with people about the god paradox. I must say that your ability to logical assess is quite impressive. I often get in arguments with people because people say things but mean something else. People try to take different meanings often from my words. Do you have this problem? Is being very "logical" also mean being very "literal."
Ray Noyes
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Will Once:
HI Will. I've just had my first humorous book published (Abertwp Awakes - the first of a series) about eccentric characters in an Under Milk Wood sort of village in Wales. I was wondering what your experience of this group has been. Your type of humour is not dissimilar to mine, it appears. Finding the right group is not so easy. Hope you don't mind me asking?
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