Soaressilva/investing

"Too often in the course of trying to define snark, Mr. Denby sounds like a retired country-club president railing against the younger club members for not observing the proper decorum. Snark is "low," "mean," "annoying," "philistine," "dreadful," "coarse", "lazy," "second-rate" and "slightly unclean." It is the lingua franca of the Internet, which lacks "the authority of agreed-upon facts and a central narrative of what's going on in the world" and in its place offers "only the many niches and bat caves from which highly colored points of view fly wildly like confused vectors.""

"Occult references are to be found in Bond stories: the Tudor astrologer and mathematician John Dee signed his letters as "007" (apparently a sacred code and of course Bond's number) and Elizabeth I signed her letters to Dee as "M" (Judi Dench must see a dentist, btw). Gardiner describes the spiritual references in Fleming's penultimate book You Only Live Twice. For example, Bond thinks his life is coming to an end because his wife has been murdered: he is assigned a new number by the duller suits: 7777. Apparently in Eastern numerology this translates as "It is done". To quote the blurb: "There are numerous references throughout the books to Gnostic, mystic and alchemist symbols. Even character names are often clues to Fleming's secrets. Auric Goldfinger, for example, is an alchemical term. Auric means gold and the golden finger indicates the alchemist himself, who turns lead into gold. Hugo (mind, spirit, or heart) Drax (dragon or winged serpent) means the mind of the serpent - in alchemy, the serpent is the symbol of regeneration and wisdom, but also of negative energy."