From: edwardbelsky@worldnet.att.net   
      
   Edward Belsky  wrote in message   
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   > > > Good riff, though, from AB, weren't it?   
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   > > He was a great riffer - a hero of mine in fact (I know heroes are   
   regarded   
   > > by intellectuals as unsanitary for the mind, but there you are).   
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   > > ROBBIE   
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   > Except that AB's later books are completely unreadable, except for the   
   autobiographies.  Have you really gotten through M/F and Earthly Powers and   
   1985?   
      
   There is one good bit in M/F: the hero, who by the way reveals at the end   
   that he is Black, conjures up "chaste Massachusetts moonlight" on the first   
   page.  The book goes down from there.   
      
   Yes, Clockwork Orange and Nothing Like the Sun and The Wanting Seed and The   
   Long Day Wanes and the Enderby books are brilliant.  Burgess' faux   
   Shakespearean sonnett in Nothing Like the Sun -- the one with "And light so   
   foiled to heat alone may turn"  -- used to really thrill my old girlfriend.   
   By the way, I think that the title "Nothing Like the Sun" and Nabokov's   
   title "Pale Fire" both refer to the same thing.   
      
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