Modesty Blaise (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Dr Giles Pennyfeather needs specific prompting to realize that armedprofessional hitmenhit men with guns are actually trying to kill him, sets up appointments with people without bothering to mention things like what time of day the appointment is at or exactly ''which'' Friday in the month the rendezvous is intended for, routinely fails basic social interaction, can't grasp the concept of 'indoor voice', is an epic klutz, and occasionally forgets that the laws of physics actually exist. He is also an unbelievably talented diagnostician and field surgeon, who can do things like accurately measure a human pulse without a stopwatch, talk an unskilled civilian through how to perform an emergency appendectomy on the floor of a cave using only a fighting knife, a bottle of rubbing alcohol, two clamps, and a needle and thread, recognize when someone is on a subtle dose of brainwashing drugs without a blood test (or any diagnostic equipment at all beyond simply talking to them and noting skin color, pupil dilation, and general behavior), and hypnotize a patient so well that it can substitute for surgical anesthesia.