This helped him to avoid staleness and the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes. He always knew when his body or his mind had had enough and he always acted on the knowledge. James Bond suddenly knew that he was tired. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling–a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension–becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
