From: EdwardBelsky@worldnet.att.net   
      
   God do I love Burgess.  He has a character in "M/F" remembering his college   
   years in Cambridge Mass. and using the phrase "Chaste Massachusetts   
   moonlight" Burgess wrote once that he knew he was going to write "A   
   Clockwork Orange" in 1945 right at the end of the war when he heard an   
   80-year-old cockney say in a London pub "He's as queer as a clockwork   
   orange." And Burgess wrote this faux-Shakespeare sonnett, featured in the   
   book about Shakespeare"Nothing Like the Sun," whose title echos the same   
   modesty relative to Shakespeare as Nabokov's title "Pale Fire." (published   
   in April '62, two years before Burgess' book).   
      
   Fair is as fair as fair itself allows   
   And, hiding in the dark, is not less fair.   
   The married blackness of my miistress's brows   
   Is thus fair's home for fair abideth there.   
   My lady being black her beauty may not shine   
   And light so foiled to heat alone may turn.   
   Heat is my hearth, all earth is mine   
   Heaven I scorn when in such hell I burn   
   All other beauty's light I lightly rate   
   My love is, as my love is, for the dark.   
   In night enthroned, I seek no better state   
   Than thus to range, nor seek a guiding spark.   
       And, childish, I am put to school of night   
       For to seek light beyond the reach of light..   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)