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Hmm. Anthony Burgess seems to have done a creditable job as schoolmaster, in England and in Malaysia. He did finally give up in what I think must now be Indones
by cafard 3y ago
Hmm. Anthony Burgess seems to have done a creditable job as schoolmaster, in England and in Malaysia. He did finally give up in what I think must now be Indonesia, lying down on the floor of the classroom and not getting up. But his was a much longer run than the others'.
- defrost 3y agoBrunei .. and that was an odd story. Might have been heat stroke, might have been slipped a mickey .. but he was, reportedly, diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour or some such and advised to leave the country by the best physician in the country who worked directly for the Sultan. The odd part was this being shortly after Devil of a State was published .. nominally about a fictious African country, transparently dishing dirt on society and rule in Brunei. Clockwork Orange gets all the recognition but I still applaud his opening sentence in Earthly Powers, his parodic mockumentary of a (specific?) stereotyped British author.