at some point I'm going to have to rewatch the craig casino royale movie to talk more in depth about the clearly most interesting discrepancy between the novel and the movie (the two versions of vesper and what they say about the social and political climates of the 50s and the 2000s), but right now I'm just lying here, spinning this one line in my mind. because after bond is called into her room by the owner of the hotel and he tries to wake her and verifies to himself that she's committed suicide, he thinks, "she must have arranged for a call to be made to her room quite early so I wouldn't be the one to find her." I've been obsessing over that since I read it. it's so interesting in conversation with how vesper dies in the movie adaptation, too; in front of bond's eyes and despite his best efforts. the bond of the movie adaptation already knows that she betrayed him; that she's been in love with someone else the whole time; the bond of the novel only finds out when he reads her suicide note. I can't stop thinking about the way the two vespers were conversely granted and denied agency in their own stories and how that reflects in the methods of their deaths.